“He was like a professor,” his longtime broadcasting partner, Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming, said in a telephone interview. “He taught audiences how to watch skating. He also sometimes ...

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR ... Representing the Skating Club of Boston, Christine Lane was with her son, Spencer, heading home on Flight 5342 from the U.S. Figure Skating National Development ...

He was one of his sport’s greatest innovators and promoters.Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five ... Button promoted skating and its athletes, transforming a niche sport into ...

The plane crash near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night struck the sports world when it was revealed that members of the figure skating ... dreams, gold medal shot putter ...

NORTH SALEM, New York -- Dick Button, the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating, died Thursday at age 95. Button dominated men’s figure skating in the late 1940s and ...

Skaters, coaches and family members on their way back from a national skating ... The figure skating world was also mourning Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and broadcaster ...

Dick Button is the custodian of the history of figure skating and its quintessential ... Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, died Thursday, said ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist ... to hold the national, North American, European, world and Olympic titles concurrently. Button retired from amateur skating after securing ...