U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won consecutive Olympic gold medals on the ice before he became the voice of the ...
Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.
Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...
Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men's figure skater in history. He was one of his sport's greatest innovators ...
He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Dick Button, an Olympic champion figure skater who became one of the voices of the sport for decades, died Thursday at age 95 in North Salem, N.Y., his daughter told The Washington Post.
Olympic figure skating great and commentator Dick Button dies at 95.