Button with his fellow figure skating gold medallist Barbara Ann Scott ... and his wife Evelyn. Young Dick was given his first pair of skates aged 11 and went on to attend a skating school in ...

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 was the most famous and most ...

One of figure skating's greatest legends has died. Dick Button, 95, the golden boy who began it all by revolutionizing the sport, passed away on January 31, 2025. Born Richard Totten Button ...

Dick Button, American skating’s most decorated ... Tatiana Tarasova, the doyenne of Russian figure skating, began calling old peers who were coaching or had children skating in the United ...

Peggy Fleming recalls 1961 plane crash that killed U.S. figure skating delegation. Sunday, she'll participate in show ...

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.

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Figure skating icon and Indian Wells resident Dorothy Hamill brings theatrical presentation on ice to the Berger Foundation ...

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Others who died in January include: figure skater Dick Button, French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, singer Wayne Osmond, former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards, former Greek prime ...