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Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough Dancing with the Stars Apolo Anton Ohno Apolo Anton Ohno Pictures Three-time Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno has been the top short-track skater in the United States since 2001, when he became the first American to win the overall World Cup for the 2000-01 season. Apolo Anton Ohno since has won the overall title twice more, in 2003 and 2005. Apolo Anton Ohno also has won six Olympic medals, including two gold, breaking speed skater Eric Heiden's record for the most career winter medals by a U.S. man. Apolo Anton Ohno has at least one medal in each of the Olympic distances: gold in the 500m; silver and bronze in the 1000m; gold and silver in the 1500m; and bronze in the 5000m relay. Apolo Anton Ohno has won every national title since 2001, earning his 10th consecutive win in September 2009, and has 12 overall national titles.
Apolo Anton Ohno again qualified to skate all three individual events in Vancouver, by winning each at Olympic trials and defending his national title. Apolo Ohno also will skate on the 5000m relay, giving him four chances at a medal. "It feels really good," Apolo Ohno said of qualifying for his third Olympic team. "We have a very, very strong team." In Vancouver, Ohno will be competing about three hours from his hometown of Seattle. Apolo Ohno became interested in short track at age 12 while watching the 1994 Lillehammer Games. Despite his late start, it took Apolo Ohno only two years to become the best short-track skater in the United States. At 14, after training under Pat Wetland in Lake Placid for just six months, Apolo Ohno claimed his first overall title at the U.S. Championships, becoming the youngest national champion ever. Apolo Ohno's success made him a likely candidate to make the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team, but he struggled with his fitness after leaving the Lake Placid training center and finished 16th at the Olympic Trials. After failing to make the 1998 Olympic team, Apolo Anton Ohno, 15, had to decide whether to continue skating. Apolo Anton Ohno's father feared he would make a rash decision after the disappointment at Olympic Trials and brought his son to a secluded cottage three hours northwest of Seattle. With no distractions from TV or telephone, Apolo Anton Ohno passed the time by taking long runs. It was during one of his runs, when Apolo Anton Ohno stopped and sat on a rock in the pouring rain, that he realized he wanted to continue skating. Apolo Anton Ohno's unique first name was given to him by his father, who combined the Greek words "Ap," meaning "steering away from," and "lo," meaning "look out, here he comes." Yuki says his son's middle name, "Anton," means priceless. Apolo Anton Ohno also goes by "Chunkie," a holdover from his youth, when he was one of the stockier members of his roller skating team. Apolo Anton Ohno became a mainstream celebrity by winning season four of the hugely popular show "Dancing with the Stars" in 2007. Apolo Anton Ohno is one of several athletes to win the title, including former Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi, NFL player Emmitt Smith and auto racer Helio Castroneves. Apolo Anton Ohno and partner Julianne Hough beat celebs Joey Fatone and Laila Ali in the final round. In the final, Apolo Anton Ohno and Hough received perfect 10s from all three judges on two of their dances and earned a 28 on the third dance. Apolo Anton Ohno also appeared on Bravo's "Project Runway" as a guest judge in an episode that aired the week before the Beijing Olympics in August 2008. The challenge was to design an outfit for the U.S. Olympic team to wear at the Opening Ceremony in Beijing. Apolo Anton Ohno was raised by his father, Yuki Ohno, who owns a Seattle hair salon called Yuki's diffusion. Yuki was the driving force behind Apolo's skating career, driving him to competitions and encouraging him to push himself. Yuki also persuaded his then-14-year-old son to move to Lake Placid in 1996 to train under Pat Wentland. Apolo Anton Ohno was initially not pleased about the move and skipped his flight to New York after Yuki dropped him off at the airport. Apolo Anton Ohno had called friends to pick him up, and he remained with them for a week, until Yuki was able to talk him into it. Yuki then accompanied Apolo Anton Ohno on the flight to Lake Placid and personally dropped him off with Wentland.
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