Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive world champion (1948–1952).

2 days ago · Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old.

1 day ago · Two-time Olympic champion Richard “Dick” Button, whose pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionized the sport of figure skating, died Jan. 30. He was 95 years old. ... Well known as “The Voice of Figure Skating” from 1960 to 2010, Button was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2015. While ...

1 day ago · The trophy room at the Skating Club of Boston is named in Button’s honor, and the club has hosted the Dick Button Artistic Figure Skating Showcase, which is designed to promote the beauty and innovation of skating as an art form. Button’s impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men’s champion — and his ...

1 day ago · Dick Button, whose passionate and often tart commentary on figure skating competitions became a television staple over six decades and made him the sport’s unofficial spokesman, died on Thursday ...

1 day ago · Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952. Chuck Todd exiting NBC News after nearly 20 years amid broad shifts in the TV ...

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

1 day ago · Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men's figure skating champion, and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a practice session at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on ...

1 day ago · Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age 95 of natural causes in North Salem, New York, according to U.S. Figure Skating. In 1948, Button, then 18, won the first of back-to-back Olympic titles. He remains the youngest man to win an Olympic figure skating gold ...

1 day ago · Button died of natural causes, according to the sport's U.S. governing body. "U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of the legendary Dick Button," it said in a statement. "The two-time Olympic ...