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 ...

Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952).

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 · 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, …

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 · Dick Button, an Olympic figure skating legend both for his performances on the ice and his impact as a broadcaster, died on Thursday in North Salem, N.Y., at the age of 95, U.S. Figure Skating ...

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 · Former figure skater Dick Button attends Figure Skating In Harlem 20th Anniversary Champions In Life Benefit Gala at 583 Park Avenue in New York City, on May 2, 2017.