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Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

Button’s impact on figure skating began after World War II. He was the first U.S. men’s champion — and his country’s youngest at the time at age 16 — when the competition returned in 1946.

Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

He also invented the flying camel spin. As noted in Mary Louise Adams’ 2011 book, Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport , “Button ushered in a new ...

American figure skating icon Dick ... He followed up the groundbreaking effort by sticking the first-ever triple loop and innovating the “Button camel,” now called the flying camel spin, ...

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Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating (1948 and 1952), has died at age 95. ... He also invented the flying camel spin. In addition, ...