Apollo Ohno's talent apparent on and off ice

Speed-skater Apollo Ohno is best known for burning up the frozen tracks while speed skating, but he's also burning up the Neilsen boxes on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars". With five gold medals around his neck already, Ohno will try for more in Vancouver in 2010.

"Thankfully, Ohno’s talents translate well to the dance floor, as they “only have about three to four days to learn a new routine,” he said last Thursday evening at a news conference. He confessed that he found speed skating to be much tougher than ballroom dancing.

When asked if dancing helps his skating at all, he explained with amusement that one of his coaches from Korea thought it would help him by relaxing his skating.

Ohno went on to say that he is “too serious, too focused” as he trains for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Dancing, he said, has become a form of self-expression."

Source: Northwest Asian Weekly