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Dick Button, Figure Skating Champion and Commentator, Dies at 95

Par : Richard Goldstein

30 janvier 2025 à 23:56

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.

Button commentating with the former Olympic skater Peggy Fleming during coverage of the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta.

World champion Russian pair and US skaters were onboard crashed plane

The Guardian

Par : Sean Ingle， Nick Ames and Bryan Armen Graham

30 janvier 2025 à 19:50

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on American Airlines plane that crashed near Washington DC, among six members of the Skating Club of Boston

Washngton DC plane crash – latest updates

The figure skating world united in grief after it emerged as many as 14 skaters and coaches, including two 16-year-olds and a married pair of world champions, were onboard the American airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac river in Washington DC on Wednesday night.

Flight 5342 collided with a US army helicopter as it prepared to land at Reagan Washington International Airport, leaving more than 60 people believed to be dead. The Skating Club of Boston said six of its members had been on the plane, which had been bringing them back from a development camp that followed the US national figure skating championships in Wichita, Kansas.

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