NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history. He was one of his sport’s greatest innovators and promoters. Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and ...

Button died Thursday in North Salem, New York, his family confirmed Thursday. "U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of the legendary Dick Button," the organization said in a statement. "The two ...

There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was one of the most popular televised sports in the nation, and Dick Button was the most famous and most ...

NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history. He was one of his sport’s great innovators and promoters, the man responsible not only for ...

Button with his fellow figure skating gold medallist Barbara Ann Scott ... and his wife Evelyn. Young Dick was given his first pair of skates aged 11 and went on to attend a skating school in ...

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 ...

Dick Button, American skating’s most decorated ... Tatiana Tarasova, the doyenne of Russian figure skating, began calling old peers who were coaching or had children skating in the United ...

One of figure skating's greatest legends has died. Dick Button, 95, the golden boy who began it all by revolutionizing the sport, passed away on January 31, 2025. Born Richard Totten Button ...