"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

As the first repeat Olympic champion to his groundbreaking work as a television analyst, Dick’s expertise and passion challenged generations of athletes to be better while building a fan base that remains today.

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara Lipinski once said.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

The European figure skating championships have carried on, even as the skating world mourned athletes who died when an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Those involved with the University of Delaware’s High Performance Figure Skating Center have celebrated many triumphs, including in the U.S. Nationals and Olympics. On Thursday they endured the opposite extreme,

The two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.

'I cried. It was tough'; A figure skating mother reacts to the death of a friend in the Washington plane crash

U.S. Figure Skating is confirming several members of its skating community are among the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash. One local figure skater said she knows firsthand just how much these individuals meant to the sport.

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion who went on the become the Emmy-winning voice of Olympic figure skating broadcasts, died Thursday. He was 95. His son Edward confirmed the news to The Associated Press but didn’t not provide a cause or place of death.

Former University of Delaware Figure Skating Club coach Sasha Kirsanov died in the crash along with two young skaters who trained in Newark.