Dick Button, the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist, has died at 95. He won gold in 1948 and 1952, pioneering jumps like the double axel and the triple loop. Button later became a ...

He was one of his sport’s greatest innovators and promoters.Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, died Thursday, said his son, Edward, who did not ...

The first American Olympic gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952, Button took the nation by the hand and escorted all of us into the often arcane and always dramatic world of ...

Two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist and acclaimed broadcaster Dick Button died Thursday. He was 95 years old. Button was the first American figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal ...