Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating and one the sport's great innovators, dies at the age of 95.

More than 30 figure skaters with ties to Delaware rinks competed in the Winter Olympics for the U.S. from 1972 through 2006, including eight at the 1984 Games and six in 1988. That history has ...

For the next eight decades, the utilitarian barn on the banks of the Charles River was one of the centers of American figure ...

Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.

"What you learn in skating is you fall down constantly, but you get up," 1956 Olympic champion and U.S. Figure Skating Hall ... "I think in decades past, there was more of a feeling of rivalry ...

"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 ...

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"What you learn in skating is you fall down constantly, but you get up," 1956 Olympic champion and U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductee Tenley Albright told ... It also speaks to changing ...