AND Community of Sliding Figures Experienced immense sadness this week after 14 members of the tragically killed in Midrairo were killed on Wednesday night on Wednesday night on Wednesday night on Wednesday night on Wednesday night.
Their loss came just a day before double Olympic gold medal Dick Button, The pioneer in sports, who would also continue to have a legendary emission career, died at 95.
File – Dick Button of English, NJ, Skating Champion in North America and a European title winner, performs a jump during training in St. Moritz in Switzerland, January 19, 1948, in preparation for the 1948 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo, File)
“About this terrible, sad day for the figure of skating with the loss of young upcoming talent and their family members and coaches in an aircraft accident, I am further broken from losing legend of sliding figures, my friend, Dick Button,” Brian Boitano, who won the gold medal At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he wrote in a post about social media.
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“Rip, Dick Button,” said former American sports journalist Michele Tafoy in another post.
“I like to think that you went to heaven on time to greet young skaters and coaches who failed on Wednesday on the tragedy. Let all you slide together among the stars.”
Everly and Alydia Livingston were killed in a plane crash between the American Airlines flight and a military helicopter near the National Airport of Reagan in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. All 67 people on the ship of both aircraft are assumed to be dead. (Instagram/@Lede_scling_Sisters)
The winner of the two Olympic gold medals, five consecutive World Championships, seven direct titles in the US and triple titles of North America, Button was one of the most successful sliders of men’s figures.
He was the first to land double Axel and a triple leap in the competition, both of which led to win the Olympic Games. After the sliding ended, Button would enter the broadcast world, eventually earned the name “Voice of Figure Skating”.
Button died on Thursday in northern Salem, New York, his family confirmed on Thursday.
“Skating is mourned by the loss of the legendary Dick buttons,” the organization states. “Double pioneering style of the Olympic champion and award -winning television comment revolutionized figure skating. His legacy will live forever.
File – Dick Button, from England, NJ, a ruling world skating champion, is shown in Oslo to defend his Olympic title in the Winter Games. Performed by the Jellen Jellen on February 12, 1952 in Oslo, Norway. (AP Pictures)
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The Scott Hamilton Gold Medal Olympic Medal spoke of Wednesday at the tragedy and loss of Button, a good friend, in the performance today on Friday.
Hamilton was in Wichiti, Kansas, at the US Skating Championship and was familiar with some of the victims on Wednesday in a collision, including the world champion skaters Evgenia Shishkova and I Vadim Naumov.
“It’s just beyond everything I can handle,” tear Hamilton said of losses.
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