“Dick Button created an open and honest space in figure skating broadcasting where no topic or moment was off-limits,” said Johnny Weir, the three-time U.S. champion and current NBC Sports fig ...
"U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of the legendary Dick Button. His legacy will live on forever. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones." 1984 Olympic champion ...
Peggy Fleming recalls 1961 plane crash that killed U.S. figure skating delegation. Sunday, she'll participate in show honoring victims of D.C. crash.
He was living in a time when U.S. Figure Skating was prioritizing ... faster and much more critical to a skater’s ranking. Dick Button, American skating’s most decorated star and the aging ...
There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was ... then again in 1952, Button took the nation by the hand and escorted all of us into the often arcane ...
He performed the first double axel and first triple jump in competition and was credited with inventing the flying camel spin Dick ... the 1992 US championships, Button described his skating ...
ON THE FINAL DAY of competition, 23-year-old Maxim Naumov took the ice for the men's free skate. Coached by his parents, ...
Dick Button, an Olympic champion figure skater ... 31 on Sunday to secure his third straight national title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kan. Ilia Malinin snags third ...
1937 — Maribel Vinson wins her ninth and final U.S. figure skating singles championship. Robin Lee wins his third straight men’s title. 1937 — The NFL Redskins move from Boston to Washington. 1948 — ...
U.S. Figure Skating was hit with a horrific loss as the entire team — athletes, seconds, thirds and coaches, perished in a ...