Dick Button, first U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist, dies at 95
Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, has died at age 95, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post, citing ...
Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'
Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...
Interesting but imperfect, U.S. figure skaters turn eyes toward worlds
Led by Ilia Malinin, Americans are finding their form with world championships coming to Boston in March and Milan-Cortina ...
What we know about the figure skaters who were on the airplane that crashed in Washington, D.C.
They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.
European figure skating championships carry on after D.C. crash
The European figure skating championships carried on Thursday in Tallin, Estonia, even as the skating world mourned athletes ...
Deseret News archives: First Winter Olympics figure skating medal awarded on this day 101 years ago
The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...
U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Amber Glenn, Ilia Malinin shine ahead of worlds, en route to 2026 Olympics
The U.S. worlds team was chosen during the U.S. national championships in Wichita over the weekend, and skaters are starting ...
Dick Button, dominant U.S. figure skating icon, dies at 95
Dick Button, who won figure skating gold for Team USA in 1948 and 1952 before going on to star as a commentator, has died, his family announced. He was 95.
Following a long history of Olympic success, UD's Figure Skating community in mourning
Among UD-based skaters who excelled at the highest levels were the 1992 Olympic pairs duo of Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval ...
14 linked to figure skating were on crashed airplane in D.C.
Fourteen members of the figure skating community were among the passengers on a jet that collided with an Army helicopter in ...
Dick Button, Olympic Figure Skating Champion and TV Analyst, Dead at 95
Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist who parlayed his figure skating success into a career as an Emmy-winning TV ...
Figure skaters to be memorialized at worlds in Boston
Figure skaters and others killed in the midair collision near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March.