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Figure skating legend Dick Button dies

NBC Sports on MSN · 51m

Dick Button, first U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist, dies at 95

"It just seemed that it was the most natural thing in the world to go on and compete in the next championship."Button converted his medals into a belt buckle for his mom and a paper weight for his dad.

The Associated Press – Sports o… · 1h

Dick Button dies at 95; men’s figure skating legend was well-known Olympic commentator

In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport into the showpiece of every Winter Olympics.

USA TODAY Sports on MSN · 9h

Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'

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

Plane crash in USA - 14 figure skaters among victims

Figure skating performances of DC plane crash victims

A pair of young figure skaters, their mothers, and two Russian coaches were among the 60 passengers on board the jet.

CBS Texas on MSN · 5h

North Texas community mourns as tragedy strikes U.S. Figure skating community as victims identified in D.C. plane crash

U.S. Figure Skating is confirming several members of its skating community are among the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash. One local figure skater said she knows firsthand just how much these individuals meant to the sport.

6 with ties to Skating Club of Boston killed in DC plane crash

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

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Russian skating couple, world champions in 1990s, were in crashed US airliner

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American ...

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Members of U.S. figure skating community were on flight that collided with Army helicopter

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure ...

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A groom-to-be pilot, daughter of Indian immigrants and figure skating champions are among DC air collision victims

Sam Lilley, a young fiancé awaiting his fall wedding, was piloting the American Airlines flight that was minutes away from a ...

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