A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden ...

Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.

In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport ...

Dick Button, the 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 5-time world champion who went on the become the voice of Olympic figure ...

Here are seven places to ice skate in Massachusetts this winter. Ice-skating on Frog Pond in the Boston Common. Boston is ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 ...

He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

Two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist and acclaimed broadcaster Dick Button passed away on Thursday. He was 95 years ...

U.S. figure skating legend Dick Button, who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals before becoming the iconic voice of the ...

Dick Button, who won figure skating gold for Team USA in 1948 and 1952 before going on to star as a commentator, has died, his family announced. He was 95.