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He Artistic skating community Experienced immense pain this week after 14 community members died tragically in a air aircraft collision in Washington DC on Wednesday night.
His loss occurred only one day before twice Polla button Olympic gold medalist, A pioneer in sport that would also have a legendary transmission race, died at age 95.
Archive: The Englewood Dick button, NJ, a American male artistic skating champion and winner of the European title, executes a jump during a practice session at St. Moritz, Switzerland, on January 19, 1948, in preparation for games Winter Olympics of 1948. (Photo AP, file)
“In this terrible and sad day to skate figures with the loss of the next talents and their families and coaches in the plane crash, I am more inconsolanted with the loss of the legend of artistic skating, my friend, Dick Button,” Brian Brian Baitano , who won a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, wrote in a publication on social networks.
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“RIP, Dick Button,” said former American sports reporter Michele Tafoya in another publication.
“I like to think that you went to heaven in time to welcome the young skaters and coaches who perished in Wednesday’s tragedy. That everyone slips between the stars together.”
Everly and Alydia Livingston were killed in a plane crash between an American Airlines flight and an army helicopter near the Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. All 67 people on board are presumed dead. (Instagram/@Ice_skating_Sisters)
Winner of two Olympic gold medals, five consecutive world championships, seven consecutive titles from the United States and three North American titles in North America, was one of the most successful men’s figurative skaters.
He was the first to get a double axel and triple jump in the competition, both led to victory in the Olympic Games. After his skating career ended, Button would enter the world of transmission, and finally won the name of “the voice of artistic skating.”
Button died Thursday at North Salem, New York, his family confirmed Thursday.
“The figurative skating of the United States cries the loss of the legendary Dick button,” the organization said in a statement. “The pioneering style of the two -time Olympic champion and the award -winning television comment revolutionized the figurative skating. His legacy will live forever. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.”
Archive: Dick Button, from Englewood, NJ, the current artistic skating champion of the world, is tuning in Oslo to defend his Olympic title in the winter games. He is making a deer jump on February 12, 1952 in Oslo, Norway. (AP images)
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The Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton spoke about the tragedy and loss of button on Wednesday, a good friend, in an appearance on Friday.
Hamilton was in Wichita, Kansas, in the artistic skating championships of the United States and was familiar with some of the victims in Wednesday’s accident, including world champions of peer champions Shishkova and Vadim Naumov Evgenia.
“He has simply been beyond everything I can handle,” said a cryor Hamilton about losses.
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