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Three more athletes on Dancing With the Stars
On Monday, Dancing With the Stars announced the celebrities who will be competing this season for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy.
Overall, athletes have won in four of the show's six seasons.
Fresh off her gold medal win in beach volleyball, Misty May-Treanor will be partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy; Maurice Greene, who won two gold medals at the Sydney Olympic Games will work with two-time Dancing champion Cheryl Burke; and Super Bowl Champion Warren Sapp (who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders) will team up with Kym Johnson.
Sports stars on the show tend to either go all the way or burn out fast. One factor that may hamper the athletes’ chances this time around is that sports figures have won the past three competitions (Kristi Yamaguchi, pictured above, Helio Castroneves and Apollo Anton Ohno). Overall, athletes have won in four of the show's six seasons.
The sports stars do, however, have an advantage, in that they are all partnered with DWTS veteran dancers, all of whom have either won the show or placed second.
Here is a look at the celebrities from the sports world who have competed in the six-season history of Dancing with the Stars and how they did:
Year
Athlete
Career
Partner
Finish
2005
Evander Holyfield
Boxing
Edyta Sliwinska
5th
2006
Kenny Mayne
Broadcasting
Andrea Hale
Last
2006
Stacy Keibler
Wrestling
Tony Dovolani
3rd
2006
Jerry Rice
Football
Anna Trebunskaya
2nd
2006
Emmitt Smith
Football
Cheryl Burke
Won
2007
Clyde Drexler
Basketball
Elena Grinenko
8th
2007
Laila Ali
Boxing
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
3rd
2007
Apollo Anton Ohno
Speed Skating
Julianne Hough
Won
2007
Floyd Mayweather Junior
Boxing
Karina Smirnoff
9th
2007
Helio Castroneves
Auto Racing
Julianne Hough
Won
2008
Monica Seles
Tennis
Jonathon Robers
Last (tie)
2008
Jason Taylor
Football
Edyta Sliwinska
Second
2008
Kristi Yamaguchi
Figure Skating
Mark Ballas
Won
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