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 inventing the flying ...
“Dick Button is the custodian of the history of figure skating and its quintessential voice,” 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano said in Button’s autobiography. “He made the words ‘lutz ...
Button with his fellow figure skating gold medallist Barbara Ann Scott in St Moritz in 1948 Credit: AFP via Getty Images At St Moritz he performed the first double axel in any competition ...
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 ...
Figure skater and Indian Wells resident Dorothy Hamill hosts theatrical presentation on ice at the Berger Foundation Iceplex ...
A star-studded group of some of the best U.S. figure skaters of the past and present took the ice in the nation's capital to ...
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 five ...