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Dick Button, Olympic skating legend and announcer, dead at 95

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Dick Button won two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships.

He was the first U.S. men’s champion at the St. Moritz Olympics in 1946 .

He performed the first double axel in any competition and made more history with the first triple jump in competition.

His death coincided with the crash of an American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River .

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