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

Just hours after stepping off the ice following the end of the National Development Camp held in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, more than a dozen members of the figure skating community lost their lives.

The local figure skating community is mourning the loss of a number of members of the US Figure Skating with local connections, including three from Delaware.

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

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

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.

Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov joined the staff at The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2017.

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in competition, then spun TV ratings gold with his pithy, Emmy-winning commentary, died Thursday.

Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman reports on how families are coming to terms with the reality of the deadly aircraft collision in D.C. on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

The figure skaters who died in Wednesday’s plane crash are mourned not just because they were young and talented but because, to anyone associated with the sport, they are part of the family.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Central North Carolina has a close knit figure skating community that was rocked by a horrific tragedy on Wednesday. A Triangle figure skating coach told ABC11 that Thursday has been a day of grieving.