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

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.

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

Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.

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Iris Cummings, right, in 1943. During World War II, she belonged to an elite unit known as the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, or WASPs.
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