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The US figure skating icon is dead at 95
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Dick buttonThe first US Olympic gold medalist in figure skating is dead, and the passage of the legend comes from what a dark day was for sports.
The button in North Salem, North Salem, North Salem on Thursday, according to her children, who first confirmed her death in Washington.
Maybe no one in the history had more impact on the US figure skating than the DB, which first dominated the 1940s and then competed in the 1950s … and then became a long broadcast worldwide.
Dick almost literally literally literally the map of the figure skating. He remains the youngest man who has ever reached Olympic gold in figure skating.
He hit the gold for the second time at the 1952 winter Olympics in Oslo, and it dided with some serious flare, becoming the first person to be a triple knot.
After that, Dick went … earning a $ 150,000 contract with icy covers. It may not be so many now, but it has forced him to one of the highest paid athletes in the world, and then in 1960, he started a legendary career.
He included the Winter Olympics for that year for CBS before the ABC’s “Wide Sports World” was truly voice of figure skating.
Dick was a sweetheart for the fact that he called it when he saw it and did not have a treadmill program for ugliness, or when he labeled the Olympic performance. ” His last STINT covered the Olympic Games in 2010 came 2010. During Vancouver Games.
He still has 2 US men’s entries – his two Olympic gold medals and his 7 national championships.
How Eerie Timing Feels, the indisputable icon of the American skating rink died on the same day when sports mourning The deaths of talented young skiers in American Airlines 5342What was faced on Wednesday evening after colliding with a military helicopter. Fourteen people, skiers, coaches and parents, were flying out of Wichita, where the championship of figure skating in the United States took place in the world’s figure skating.
The button survives by its 2 children. He was 95 years old.
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