American figure skating pioneer Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist ... Button also won five consecutive world championships (1948-1952), seven consecutive U.S. Championships (1946-1952) and ...

More than just the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history, Dick Button was one of the sport’s greatest innovators and promoters.

U.S. figure skating legend Dick Button, who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals ... Sports after the network acquired the rights to the United States Figure Skating Championships and the 1962 World ...

Dick Button Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif. on Jan. 4, 2018. AP “Dick was one of the most important ...

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. Button died ...

Dick Button was more than the most ... After a 1961 plane crash killed the entire U.S. figure skating team on the way to the world championships, which then were canceled, Button persuaded ABC ...

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 ... again in 1952, Button took the nation ...

American figure ... U.S. Championships (1946-1952) and was the only American to win the European championship (1948). “No other figure skater embodies the sport as much as Dick Button," Tara ...

By Deborah Wilker Dick Button ... Even in his 90s, Button never relinquished his role as guardian. In 2020, he used U.S. Figure Skating’s work-from-home challenge to chide the International ...