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Dick Button, Icon of Olympic Figure Skating, Dies

NBC Sports on MSN · 1h

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, died Thursday at age 95, according to U.S. Figure Skating. In 1948, Button, then 18, won the first of back-to-back Olympic titles.

CNN on MSN · 57m

Dick Button dies at 95; men’s figure skating legend was well-known Olympic commentator

In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport into the showpiece of every Winter Olympics.

USA TODAY Sports on MSN · 1h

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 Lipinski once said.

14 figure skaters among victims of DC plane crash

Hosted on MSN · 2h

DC Plane Crash: Sports Figures, Teams React to Tragedy That Rocked Figure Skating

Magic Johnson, Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, Scott Hamilton and others from the sports world reacted on social media to the tragic D.C. airplane crash Thursday.

USA Today · 7h

Who was Evgenia Shishkova? Massachusetts figure skating coach among DC plane crash victims

Evgenia Shishkova and her husband Vadim Naumov were from Russia but lived in Norwood, Massachusetts, close to where they coached.

Ice skating performances of DC plane crash victims

A pair of young figure skaters, their mothers, and two Russian coaches were among the 60 passengers on board the jet.

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Members of U.S. figure skating community were on flight that collided with Army helicopter

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure ...

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European figure skating championships carry on, overshadowed by deadly mid-air collision in US

The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an ...

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Local figure skating community heartbroken after fatal aviation crash in Washington, D.C.

Among the 67 lives lost were top skaters from the United States and Russia, including several children, poised to become the ...

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Figure skating community mourns Washington D.C. plane crash victims: Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, Nancy Kerrigan give emotional tributes

As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of ...

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