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The Figure Skating community Find out immense grief this week after 14 members of the community were tragically killed in a collision in Washington DC on Wednesday evening.
Her loss came just one day two times ago Olympia -Gold medalist winner tail button, A pioneer in sports that would also make a legendary radio career died at 95.
File -Dick -Button from Englewood, New Jersey, a skating champion and winner of the European title for men, carried out a leap on January 19, 1948 during an exercise meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to prepare for the Winter Olympics from 1948. (AP photo, file)
“On this terrible, sad day for skating with the loss of young emerging talents and their family members and trainers in the plane crash, I continue with the loss of the figure -Skating legend, my friend Dick Button, with broken heart,” Brian Boitano, the At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, won a gold medal, wrote in a contribution on social media.
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“Rip, Dick Button,” said former American sports reporter Michele Tafoya in another post.
“I like to think that they went to heaven in time to greet the young skaters and trainers who died in the tragedy on Wednesday. May they all slide together under the stars.”
Everly and Alydia Livingston were killed on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, during a plane crash between a flight aircraft flight in Arlington, Virginia, a helicopter from the army. All 67 people on board of both aircraft are claimed. (Instagram/@ice_skating_sisters)
Button was a winner of two Olympic gold medals, five consecutive world championships, seven in a row in a row and three in a row.
He was the first to land a double axel and a triple jump in the competition and led both to a win at the Olympic Games. After his skating career ended, button would enter the world of radio and finally got the name “The Voice of Figure Skating”.
Button died on Thursday in North Salem, New York, his family confirmed on Thursday.
“The US skating mourns the loss of the legendary tail button,” said the organization in a statement. “The two -time pioneer and award -winning television comment of the Olympic Champions revolutionized Figure Skating.
File -Dick key from Englewood, New Jersey, the reigning figure Skating champion in the world, is displayed at Oslo to defend his Olympic title in the winter games. On February 12, 1952, he carried out a vapor in Oslo, Norway. (AP picture)
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The Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton spoke today about the tragedy and the loss of button, a good friend.
Hamilton was in Wichita, Kansas, at the US characters -skating championships and was familiar with some of the victims when crashing on Wednesday Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.
“It was only more than anything I can handle,” said a tearful Hamilton about the losses.
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