Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...

Two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist and acclaimed broadcaster Dick Button died Thursday. He was 95 years old. Button was the first American figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal, ...

The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...

Family friends from the skating center in CT remember the two skating coaches who died in the plane crash in Washington, D.C Jan. 30.

Five-time world champion Dick Button won Olympic figure skating gold medals at St. Moritz in 1948, becoming the first in any competition to do the double axel, and at Oslo in 1952, when he was the ...

Dick Button, who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in 1948 and 1952, was known for his innovative techniques and ...

Winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, Button helped skating become the showpiece of every Winter Olympics.

Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history. He was one of his sport’s greatest innovators ...

By beating three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto for the women's singles figure skating gold medal at the Asian Winter ...

Olympian Brian Boitano tells "CBS Mornings" about his "kind and caring" friends Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova killed in ...

He remains the youngest man to win an Olympic figure skating gold medal. Button’s athletic style of jumping revolutionized the sport. At the 1948 St. Moritz Games, he became the first skater to land a ...