That earned just an 8.8 rating. I knew Dick Button years before I met him. My first recollection of his call of a big Olympic moment was in February 1976, during the Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria ...
As an entrepreneur and broadcaster, Dick Button promoted skating and its athletes, transforming a niche sport into the showpiece of every Winter Olympics NBC Universal, Inc. Dick Button was more ...
By Deborah Wilker Dick Button ... the 1960s and ’70s, Button pushed for airtime and production values that made figure skating the lucrative centerpiece of the Winter Games.
American figure skating pioneer Dick Button, a two-time Olympic ... His teacher was wrong. At age 18, Button became the youngest American man to win a gold medal at the 1948 Olympic Games in St.
Dick Button ... Games, making more history with the first triple jump (a loop) in competition. Soon after, he won a fifth world title, then gave up his eligibility as an amateur. All Olympic ...
Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist ... The first feat came at the 1948 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz, where just two days prior to the free skate program, Button successfully ...
Two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist and acclaimed broadcaster Dick Button died Thursday ... men's singles competition at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Richard "Dick" Button was the first man to win two Olympic ... He landed the first triple jump - a triple loop – at the 1952 Olympic Games on his way to winning his second gold medal.
Winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, Button helped skating become the showpiece of ...
Dick Button, an Olympic figure skating legend both for his ... Switzerland, at the 1948 Games and again in Oslo, Norway, in 1952 while achieving several firsts in the sport along the way.
“Dick was one of the most important figures in our sport,” said Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic champion ... at Harvard, Button won a second gold at the Oslo Games, making more history ...