XPost: alt.obituaries, rec.skate
Adam H. Kerman <
ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:
Richard Totten "Dick" Button,born July 18th 1929,
for years a champion of and for decades a commentator
on figure skating (back when it really was that),
died January 30th 2025 according to the NY Times and
others (coincidentally just after a plane crash
killed competitors and coaches returning from this
year's United States championships of what is still
called,but no longer really is,figure skating).
But he's the guy who brought greater athleticism to figure skating.
Remember the Button camel?
Yes...and even his saying,as a commentator approving of
a skating performance,"and THAT is a Button camel".
I've seen film of his performances. He was quite graceful, but still, he brought impossible leaps and loops and twists into skating that mere
mortals cannot perform.
He was deservedly a legend...but my subtext is that
he actually knew how to skate figures,in which today's
"figure skaters" seldom try even introductory lessons.
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