Ohno and Hough won "Dancing with the Stars" · 2007-05-23 13:05
Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno won "Dancing with the Stars". Ohno and partner Julianne Hough beat two other couples in final to be the best in the fourth season.
Former boy band "NSync member Joey Fatone and partner Kym Johnson were second while world female super middleweight boxing champion Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali, took third with partner Maksim Chmerkovsky.
"I feel amazing," said Ohno, whose athleticism shone through. "If you put your mind to something, you give 100 percent … anything is possible."
Ohno, 25, a two-time gold medalist in the Winter Olympics, and Hough were in the lead after being awarded 88 points by the show's three judges in the two-night final, which put them two points ahead of Fatone, 30, and Johnson and three points ahead of Ali, 29, and Chmerkovsky.
But it was a public telephone vote that sealed their victory and sent Ohno home with the mirrored disco-ball trophy, Reuters informs.
The fourth series of the show got off to a strong start as viewers tuned in to watch Heather Mills, the estranged wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, who was the first contestant to compete with an artificial leg. She lost her left leg below the knee in a 1993 traffic accident. Mills, 39, a former model turned social activist, survived six weeks before the public voted her and her partner Jonathan Roberts off the show.
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