There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was ... they withdrew from the pairs competition at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, fans wept with ...

"Dick Button is the custodian of the history of figure skating and its quintessential voice," 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano said in Button's autobiography. "He made the words 'lutz' and ...

By Deborah Wilker Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in competition, then spun TV ratings gold with his pithy ...

“The two-time Olympic champion’s pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionized figure skating,” U.S. Figure Skating said. “His legacy will live on foreve ...

Those involved with the University of Delaware’s High Performance Figure Skating Center have celebrated ... at the highest levels were the 1992 Olympic pairs duo of Calla Urbanski and Rocky ...

Bongarts/Getty Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia ... they competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, finishing ...

In the outskirts of Boston, the leader of a storied figure skating ... retired Olympic champion Brian Boitano recalled competing alongside Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, the 1994 pairs ...

(WTNH) — Two Russian figure skating coaches with ... won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer ...

Their loss came just a day before two-time Olympic ... U.S. Figure Skating Championships and was familiar with some of the victims in Wednesday’s crash, including world champion pairs skaters ...

Dick Button, an Olympic figure skating legend both for his performances on the ice and his impact as a broadcaster, died on Thursday in North Salem, N.Y., at the age of 95, U.S. Figure Skating ...

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater ... Both of his Olympic events were held outdoors. Skaters competed to music being played on records and were also judged on compulsory figures, or tracing ...

Richard "Dick" Button was the first man to win two Olympic gold medals in figure skating Lawrence Yee joined PEOPLE in December 2023 as the Senior News Editor, Nights. His work has previously ...