1 day ago · Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old.

1 day ago · Button’s impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men’s champion — and his country’s youngest at the time at age 16 — when the competition returned in 1946. Two years later, he took gold at the St. Moritz Olympics, back when the competitions were staged outdoors. He performed the first double axel in ...

1 day ago · Button also became figure skating’s Howard Cosell, a tuxedoed, Harvard-educated television personality who was the extremely self-confident conscience of the sport.

1 day ago · Button’s impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men’s champion — and his country’s youngest at the time at age 16 — when the competition returned in 1946.

1 day ago · Button retired from amateur skating in 1952 and skated professionally with Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice. In 1959, Button and Paul Feigay founded Candid Productions, which produced the popular made-for-TV broadcasts such as the World Professional Figure Skating Championships (1973–2002) and the World Challenge of Champions (1985–’98).

1 day ago · Button began working as a TV analyst in 1960 with CBS, covering the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif., at a time when figure skating and other winter events had yet to capture the American ...

1 day ago · Button's impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men's champion — and his country's youngest at the time at age 16 — when the competition returned in 1946.

1 day ago · American figure skating pioneer Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, who went on to have an Emmy Award-winning broadcast career as a TV analyst, died Thursday.He was 95. Button is widely ...

1 day ago · Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at the Skating Club of Boston were among the 14 people killed from the skating community. Button skated ...

1 day ago · Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age 95 of natural causes in North Salem, New York, according to U.S. Figure Skating. In 1948, Button, then 18, …