Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara Lipinski once said.

Dick Button, the first American to win Olympic gold in figure skating, has died at 95. A two-time champion and sport innovator, he transformed figure skating with groundbreaking jumps and later became its most influential commentator.

Englewood native Dick Button, an Olympic champion figure skater who became one of the voices of the sport for ecades, died Thursday at age 95.

On Jan. 25, his position in U.S. skating history was formally recognized when Wilson was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

Magic Johnson, Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, Scott Hamilton and others from the sports world reacted on social media to the tragic D.C. airplane crash Thursday.

News of the plane crash that claimed the lives of 67 people Wednesday night near Washington, D.C. hit close to home for Nancy Kerrigan. Kerrigan, the former U.S. figure skating champion, is an alumna of the Skating Club of Boston.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Olympic Gold Medalist and Tennessean Scott Hamilton shared a message after learning that members of the figure skating community were on board American Airlines Flight 5342 when it collided with a military helicopter on Wednesday night near Washington, D.C.

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked Wednesday when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.