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 ...
Dick Button, the first figure skater to win a gold medal for the U.S. in 1948, died Thursday, Jan. 30 at the age of 95. Button died at his home at Ice Pond Farm in Westchester County's North Salem, ...