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Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old. Button died ...

(CNN) — Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old.

He was 95 years old. Button was the first American figure skater to win an Olympic gold medal, finishing first in the men's singles competition at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.