The two Olympic champion, the two Olympic champion, died on Thursday and won the Emmy Prize in comments in the first triple jump. He was 95 years old.
The button died in North Serrum, New York, and his daughter, Emily button, told the Washington Post.
As with his knowledge of the encyclopedia of sports and the degree of Harvard University and Harvard Low School, the button defines a Tart Wrawn, which defines figure skating on a network TV for over 50 years, starting with the Winter Olympics at the CBS in 1960. And the passion was displayed. At that time, it was known as California Scoralley.
He moved to ABC in 1962 -he remained for more than 40 years -button has mainly Side a new era of media and skating. Teregenic star Peggy Fleming, Janetrin, Dorothy Hamill, Thai Bavironia, and Randy Gardner rose on the world stage in the 1960s and 1970s, and the buttons are skating with attractive centerpieces of the winter Olympics. Promote production value.
The “classic line”, a well -ventilated jump, and a television audience on the nuance of speed screening also taught how to find a terrible viewer. The editing of arms, bent legs, unprecedented costumes, and interrupted music was his rude anger.
In particular, the button said, “The recording studio seems to have been confused,” said the button.
Anthology series Wide World of Sport on Saturday afternoon, I often spent most of my carriers in ABC with Jim McKay, but the buttons worked with ABC and NBC Terry Gannon. Ta.
“He had me on my toes,” Ganon said in 2014. Listen to some of his commentary here.
The foresight button with a real television created a long -term ABC Kitsch Competition in 1973.
The battle of Network Stars, a spin -off in 1976, was a symbolic status during the original 12 years, and featured actors such as Robert Conrad, Fellar Fourth, Gave Capranc, Pennie Marshall, Harlinden. , Hosted in self -mock style. Howard Cosel. For many years, several revivals include recent revival in 2017.
Through his appropriate named canding production, the buttons have expanded the skater financial opportunities, and the world’s professional figure skate championships and champion challenges, and Hamil, one of the tops of her reputation. I created a TV special of such a star. Earn athletes in the world.
“Dick has made the words” Lutz “and” Salcho “as part of everyday vocabulary,” said Brian Boatano, the 1988 Olympic champion.
The Richard Totten button was born on July 18, 1929 in Eglewood, New Jersey. He worked seriously at the age of 12 at the age of 12, a little late in the game. But within five years, he was a US champion and won seven consecutive times.
In 1949, he won the Sullivan Award. The Sullivan Award will recognize the US top athletes in all amateur sports.
The button is the only American skater that captures the Olympic Gold twice. At the age of 18 at the 1948 St. Moritz tournament, he landed the first double accelerator (2 1/2 revolutions) in competition and became the youngest male figure skater so far. In 1952, he pulled a historic triple loop in Oslo, Norwegian (wearing a stylish white confusion jacket and booting). He also invented a flying camel spin.
Maryl Eses Adamus’s 2011 book, artistic impression: As mentioned in the limits of figure skating, masculinity, and sports, “The button derived the new athletic ability of figure skating … his jumping was longer, his jumping. He spins faster than his competitors.
From Davos to Paris, the buttons have won men’s singles at the World Championship for the fifth consecutive year (1948-52). Later, he retired from the competition, undertaking a professional career, touring ice Capade during his campus vacation from his legal research.
He was a first -class member in the world of figure skating in the world in 1976.
At the broadcast booth, he may be as emotional as cut. In 1996, Rudy Galinda gained one of the biggest turmoil in the history of sports, and after many years of suffering, the button has almost reduced his liveliness or tears. I didn’t.
When the winter match jumped to the NBC in 2002 after the winter game jumped on the CBS, the buttons stayed with ABC, and even after falling on ice at the age of 70, they left skull fractures, concussion, and hearing loss. 。
Dick Button and Peggy Fleming covered Sarajevo Olympics for ABC in 1984.
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For decades, he publicly criticizes a yone -sly screening system (forced after a scandal in the 2002 Salt Lake Game), which maintains skating conscience and involves the painting system in a counting paper. Erot the charm of Elan and TV.
The buttons were particularly far from the frenzy of the media, especially Tonya Harding’s 1994 rival Nancy Kerigan. “I thought I didn’t like it,” he said he was one of the largest scandals in sports history.
In 2006, the buttons returned to the Olympics for the first time in 18 years and are working on NBC in the Turin game. His limited roles were very popular, and NBC has expanded his duties on the spot. This is the relationship to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
The live Twitter commentary on the 2014 and 2018 games, which was accepted to throw his shade to a new generation of social media, was delight and devastating as usual.
“I don’t like the really brave crying finish … what is this?” He tweeted at the Pyeongchang tournament that he was dramatically pretending to be shocking the performance that was exactly the case.
Even in the 1990s, the buttons did not abandon their role as the Guardian. In 2020, he used the International Skating Union to encourage complicated excess on ice using the work challenge from the home of figure skating.
He was also a skating judge with ABC star.
In addition to his daughter, the survivor includes his son’s Edward. Both have been from 1973 to 1984 from 1973 to 1984 with Figure Skating Coach Slavka Karouout, a figure skating coach that led Rin and other champions.
When asked if the New York Times was tired of talking about figure skating in 2014, the button said no.
“Never,” he said. “Skating encourages learning about a lot of artistic forms, such as dance, performance, athletic ability, history, choreography, and even auto couture. Why can someone get bored?”
Deborah Wilker is a professional figure skater.
