Dick Button

Richard Totten Dick Button is an American former figure skater and a wellknown longtime skating television analyst. He is a twice Olympic Champion and fivetime World Champion . He is also the only nonEuropean man to have become European Champion.

Richard Totten Button was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He began skating at an early age. He did not begin training seriously until the age ofafter his father overheard him being told he would never be a good skater. Soon after, Buttons father sent him to New York to take lessons from ice dancing coach Joe Carroll, where he trained over the summer in Lake Placid, New York, eventually switching on Carrolls recommendation to coach Gustave Lussi, who coached Button for the rest of his career.

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