See the Entire ‘Dancing With the Stars: Athletes’ Cast With Their Partners!
Apr 13, 2018
Dancing With the Stars is doing something a little different for season 26: All 10 of the contestants who will be competing for the Mirrorball this time around are athletes. The group includes several Olympians, baseball and football players, a retired NBA All-Star, and a college basketball hero — so you know the competition is going to be intense. Click through to see the full DWTS: Athletes cast with their pro partners! (Photos via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Adam Rippon: The Olympic skater joins the cast fresh off of winning bronze in the team event at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson: Rippon is partnered with SYTYCD alum Johnson, who last competed with Jake T. Austin on season 23 of DWTS. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Chris Mazdzer: Mazdzer already has a silver medal in Men's Single Luge from the 2018 Winter Olympics — can he add the Mirrorball to his trophy case? (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Chris Mazdzer and Witney Carson: Mazdzer joked on Twitter that he "can't dance," but luckily, he's partnered with longtime pro Carson, who won the Mirrorball with Alfonso Ribeiro in season 19 and finished third with Frankie Muniz in season 25. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Jamie Anderson: Anderson will trade her winter boots for dancing shoes after winning two medals for snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics: one gold in slopestyle and one silver in big air. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Jamie Anderson and Artem Chigvintsev: Anderson's partner is Strictly Come Dancing alum Chigvintsev, who competed with Nikki Bella on the most recent season of DWTS. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Jennie Finch Daigle: Retired softball pitcher Finch Daigle hopes to add a Mirrorball to her collection of awards, which already includes two Olympic medals. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Jennie Finch Daigle and Keo Motsepe: Motsepe's first DWTS partner (on season 19) was an Olympian, too — hurdler and bobsledder Lolo Jones. More recently, on season 25, he competed with Barbara Corcoran. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Johnny Damon: Retired MLB star Damon is just the second professional baseball player ever to compete on DWTS. He has some big shoes to fill — former Cubs catcher David Ross was the runner-up on season 24. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Johnny Damon and Emma Slater: Slater has had success with athletes in the past, having taken NFL running back Rashad Jennings all the way to the top in season 24 of DWTS. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Josh Norman: The Washington Redskins cornerback is the latest in a long line of NFL players on DWTS — four of whom won the Mirrorball. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Josh Norman and Sharna Burgess: Burgess has danced with two other NFL players on past seasons of DWTS — Keyshawn Johnson on season 17, and Antonio Brown on season 22. She and Brown finished fourth — can she go further with Norman? (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: At 70, the retired pro basketball player and 19-time NBA All-Star is the oldest of this year's group, but he's good at basically everything he does, so don't count him out of the competition. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lindsay Arnold: Arnold is the reigning Mirrorball champ, having won season 25 of DWTS with Jordan Fisher. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Mirai Nagasu: Nagasu is the first American woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics. Her performance in the free-skate event at the 2018 Games helped Team USA win bronze. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Mirai Nagasu and Alan Bersten: Bersten competed as a pro on DWTS for the first time in season 25, finishing 12th with partner Debbie Gibson. Can he make it to the finals with Nagasu? (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Tonya Harding: Harding joins DWTS amid something of a comeback in the media, thanks to the success of the movie I, Tonya, starring Margot Robbie. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Tonya Harding and Sasha Farber: The former Olympic skater is paired with Farber, whose most recent partner was Olympic gymnast Simone Biles on season 24. (Photo via ABC/Craig Sjodin)
Arike Ogunbowale: Notre Dame's 2018 hero, whose buzzer-beating three-pointer lifted the Fighting Irish to an NCAA Women's Basketball championship victory, will compete with Gleb Savchenko, who finished 10th with Sasha Pieterse on season 25. (Photo via the University of Notre Dame)
