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Dick Button Dies: Gold Medalist Who Became The Voice Of Olympic Figure Skating Was 95
Dick Button, the 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 5-time world champion who went on the become the voice of Olympic figure skating broadcasts, has died at 95.
He later was Emmy-nominated for an Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming for his commentary work on the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, where American Peggy Fleming won the women’s competition. He was loaned to NBC to work on the 2006 Turin Olympics and finished his ABC broadcasting career in 2008, when the network stopped covering figure skating. Former ABC Sports exec Don Ohlmeyer talked about the show in a 2004 interview for the Television Academy Foundation, noting that CBS had just stolen TV rights to the NBA and his network needed something to air on weekends.
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