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Olympic Skating Legend Dick Button Useless at 95

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U.S. Determine Skating Icon Useless at 95

Revealed January 30, 2025 5:53 PM PST

Dick Button, America’s first Olympic gold medalist in determine skating, is lifeless, and the legend’s passing comes on what was already a darkish day for the game.

Button died Thursday within the Upstate New York city of North Salem … based on his youngsters, who first confirmed his loss of life within the Washington Publish.

Maybe nobody in historical past’s had extra of an influence on U.S. determine skating than DB, who first dominated as a competitor within the Forties and Fifties … after which turned a longtime broadcaster masking the game all over the world.


Dick nearly actually put America on the determine skating map — at a time when European nations dominated — when he gained his first of 5 consecutive world determine skating titles in 1948. That was additionally the 12 months he gained his first gold medal, on the age of 18. He stays the youngest man to ever obtain Olympic gold in determine skating.

He struck gold a second time, on the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, and did it with some critical flare — changing into the primary individual to land a triple soar, a triple loop to be actual, on his strategy to the medal stand.

After that Dick went professional … scoring a large (for the time) $150,000 contract with the Ice Capades. Won’t sound like a lot now, however it made him one of many world’s highest paid athletes — after which, in 1960, he began a legendary profession in broadcasting.

He coated the Winter Olympics that 12 months for CBS, earlier than leaping to ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” … the place he actually turned the voice of determine skating for generations of athletes and followers.

Dick was beloved for the very fact he known as it as he noticed it, and had no points calling a skater’s program ugly, or as he as soon as labeled an Olympic efficiency, “slapped together.” His ultimate stint masking the Olympics got here in 2010 throughout the Vancouver video games.

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He nonetheless holds 2 U.S. males’s data — his 2 Olympic gold medals, and his 7 nationwide championships.

In what appears like eerie timing, the undisputed icon of American skating died on the identical day the game mourned the deaths of the proficient younger skaters who have been on American Airways 5342, which crashed Wednesday night time into the Potomac River after colliding with a army helicopter. Fourteen individuals within the determine skating world — skaters, coaches and fogeys — have been onboard the flight which took off from Wichita, the place this 12 months’s U.S. Determine Skating Championship was held.


Flight 5342 Victims

Button is survived by his 2 youngsters. He was 95.

RIP

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