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

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 ...

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

Wednesday night's plane crash outside Washington, D.C., that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skaters, coaches and family members was devastating news for the skating community.

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

The figure skaters who died in Wednesday’s plane crash are mourned not just because they were young and talented but because, ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating (1948 and 1952), has died at age 95. He was also ...

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

Next year’s Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but it will actually be staged across a large swath of northern ...

One of figure skating's greatest legends has died. Dick Button, 95, the golden boy who began it all by revolutionizing the ...