At the beginning of Mr. Button’s career, figure skating contained two components: compulsory, or “school,” figures, patterns skaters precisely traced on the ice, once with each foot ...
Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age ...
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US skating great Dick Button dies aged 95US figure skating great Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion whose technical prowess revolutionised the sport has died aged 95, US Figure Skating announced."Richard 'Dick' Button, whose pioneering ...
"She launched figure skating's modern era," Sports Illustrated ... Fleming took a staid sport that was shackled by its inscrutable compulsory figures and arcane scoring system and, with television ...
US figure skating great Dick Button ... taking the sport to another level with his athleticism, excelling in compulsory figures and in free programmes which he peppered with his technical prowess.
Button's death coincided with the Washington DC plane crash in which 14 people from the figure skating community ... excelling in compulsory figures and in free programmes which he peppered ...
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