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 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 5-time world champion who went on the become the voice of Olympic figure skating broadcasts, has died at 95.

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,