Gold medalist figure skaters mourn American Airlines jet crash victims
Olympic gold medalist figure skaters from the Bay Area expressed grief and sorrow after learning that several of the victims ...
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Fleming launched modern era of figure skating
"I'm sure every girl out there wished that she could move like Peggy -- or look like Peggy -- and float like her on the ice," says 1992 Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi on ESPN Classic's ...
Dick Button, first U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist, dies at 95
He was the winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships. A cause of death has not been provided ...
Dick Button, dominant U.S. figure skating icon, dies at 95
Dick Button, who won figure skating gold for Team USA in 1948 and 1952 before going on to star as a commentator, has died, his family announced. He was 95.
US Figure Skating has seen tragedy before: All about the 1961 world team plane crash
In 1961, the entire U.S. national team lost their lives in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Emotions pour from tight-knit skating community following DC plane crash carrying athletes, coaches
The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches ...
Figure skating community from Bay Area and beyond mourns DC plane crash victims: 'Just unimaginable'
San Jose-native Anthony Ponomarenko had already left the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas, where the ill-fated ...