Olympians tend to do well on Dancing with the Stars. Just ask Apolo Anton Ohno. Or Shawn Johnson. Or Kristi Yamaguchi. They all have won on this television show, which makes Olympians 1/3 of the Stars’ winners. Evan Lysacek is expected to do well this season. Las Vegas bookmakers expect him to win, and give him a 1.25:1 shot.

Many of the skills that you need for skating transfer over to dancing. On the ice, Lysacek needs strength, flexibility, and timing. All of these will help with his budding dancing career.

On Monday Night’s Dancing with the Stars premiere, Lysacek and his partner scored the second-highest score of the evening.

If you were thrilled by Evan Lysacek’s gold-medal winning performance and wish that you could see a bit more of him, you’re in luck. He will be taking part in this season’s Dancing with the Stars, starting March 22nd. He won’t be the first skater to dance in the starlight, Kristi Yamaguchi is also a Stars veteran (she won in May 2008).

Apolo Ohno and Shawn Johnson are other Olympic athletes that have taken their turn dancing (and winning).

Another athlete scheduled to appear this upcoming season is Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals. Pamela Anderson and Buzz Aldrin are also scheduled to compete.

More information about the next season of Dancing with the Stars is available at Yahoo.com.

As far as good moments go, Evan Lysacek won the gold medal in men’s figure skating. I haven’t had the chance to see his performance yet, but his short program was outstanding. Johnny Weir came in sixth, and Jeremy Abbot improved his standings from Monday night to come in ninth overall. Evgeni Plushenko had to be satisfied with silver. Interesting to note, whenever an American world defending champion in men’s figure skating is at the Olympics, they have always won gold.

The ladies didn’t take halfpipe gold (that was Torah Bright, the Australian flag bearer), but the United States did get silver and bronze. Hannah Teter came back to the medal stand for the silver, while 2002 gold medalist Kelly Clark earned the bronze.

In speed skating, the Netherlands had a good day, as they earned silver and bronze in the 1000 meter women’s event. Christine Nesbitt of Canada won home gold, however.

In the 20 km individual biathlon event, there was a tie for the silver medal, and Norway earned one of them. Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen also won the gold.

Lindsey Vonn fell during the slalom portion of today’s super combined. Her German friend, Maria Reisch, won the gold. The United State’s Julia Mancuso came home with her second silver of the games, and Sweden’s Anja Pärson won the bronze. Vonn should be able to compete in the next event, the Super G, on Saturday.

I haven’t been following hockey or curling, but it looks like the United States, Canada, Finland, and Sweden are in the ladies’ hockey semifinals. The United States and Canada could face each other in the finals. That would be an interesting game. The men are still trying to determine who will make the quarterfinals. I’m not sure how the curlers are doing.