Skating legend Dick Button deserves ISU’s Lifetime Achievement Award

[japanice]

[ICE TIME] Skating Legend Dick Button Deserves ISU’s Lifetime Achievement Award | JAPAN Forward

The two-time Olympic champion and five-time world titlist was a TV analyst and show promoter for decades, and now is the time to recognize his immense contributions to the sport.

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[AxelAnnie]

[ICE TIME] Skating Legend Dick Button Deserves ISU’s Lifetime Achievement Award | JAPAN Forward

The two-time Olympic champion and five-time world titlist was a TV analyst and show promoter for decades, and now is the time to recognize his immense contributions to the sport.

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That is a huge DUH! I would have bet money that honor had already been paid him!

 

[Lemonade20]

He should have gotten it last year, but who knows how they decide on that. So many greats!

 

[Frau Muller]

He should have gotten it last year, but who knows how they decide on that. So many greats!

Decide? Very easily. There’s only Dick Button. No, there has been only one great influencer, of so many aspects of skating, of his magnitude, in my lifetime.

 

[AxelAnnie]

Too true! It is such a no brainer. I just love and admire him. Anyone remember the OI (Olympic Interviews) he did with Moskvina? Absolute heaven.

 

[overedge]

Not that he doesn't deserve it, but I wonder if there are people within the ISU who still resent him for starting the World Professional Skating Championships, which weren't ISU sanctioned (at least for the first few years). He has also criticized the IJS and how the ISU has run the sport. There must be something going on within the ISU in relation to him that has kept him excluded from the Lifetime Achievement Award for so long.

 

[Karen-W]

Not that he doesn't deserve it, but I wonder if there are people within the ISU who still resent him for starting the World Professional Skating Championships, which weren't ISU sanctioned (at least for the first few years). He has also criticized the IJS and how the ISU has run the sport. There must be something going on within the ISU in relation to him that has kept him excluded from the Hall of Fame for so long.

Uhm, he's in the HOF. He was inducted in the inaugural class in 1976.

 

[tony]

Button was vocal in supporting the short-lived WSF of 2003. The ISU never let many of the supporters/members of that group see the light of day again as far as their competitions, so I'm sure there were and still are some grudges held.

 

[overedge]

Uhm, he's in the HOF. He was inducted in the inaugural class in 1976.

My typo, I meant the Lifetime Achievement Award.