Richard Totten Button (July 18, 1929 – January 30, 2025) [1] was an American figure skater and skating analyst. He was a two-time Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and five-time consecutive World champion (1948–1952). He was also the only non-European man to have become European champion.

7 hours ago · “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 ‘salchow’ part of our everyday vocabulary.”

8 hours ago · Dick Button, whose passionate and often tart commentary on figure skating competitions became a television staple over six decades and made him the sport’s unofficial spokesman, died on Thursday ...

7 hours ago · Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952. ... Button also became figure skating’s Howard Cosell, a tuxedoed, Harvard ...

1 day ago · Two-time Olympic champion Richard “Dick” Button, whose pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionized the sport of figure skating, died Jan. 30. He was 95 years old. Press release Announcement Thursday, January 30, 2025

6 hours ago · FILE - Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men's figure skating champion, and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a practice session at St. Moritz, Switzerland ...

6 hours ago · Former figure skater Dick Button attends Figure Skating In Harlem 20th Anniversary Champions In Life Benefit Gala at 583 Park Avenue in New York City, on May 2, 2017.

5 hours ago · Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men's figure skating champion, and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a practice session at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, 1948, in preparation for the Winter Olympics of 1948.

1 day ago · Dick Button, Icon of Olympic Figure Skating, Dies at 95. The two-time gold medalist and Emmy-winning commentator transformed the sport into a ratings powerhouse.

1 day ago · Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion who went on the become the Emmy-winning voice of Olympic figure skating broadcasts, died Thursday. He was 95. He was 95.