Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, ...

Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.

The Games opened on Jan. 25, with a parade of competing nations. The next day, U.S. skater Charles Jewtraw claimed the first ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in ...

In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport ...

Tragedy struck the figure skating community this week when 14 people traveling to D.C. from a national development camp were ...

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 9, 2002, the figure skating pairs ...

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age ...

Dick Button, who brought figure skating to American audiences as the first U.S. skater to win an Olympic gold medal and then as a longtime commentator, died Thursday at his home in North Salem ...

They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.

He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a ...