The two-time Olympic champion who pushed his sport to new physical heights went on to become its television voice for generations of viewers.

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age 95 of natural causes, according to U.S. Figure Skating. In 1948, Button, then 18,

U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won two Olympic gold medals on the ice before becoming the voice of the sport on television, died Thursday, U.S.