Tonight is the season premiere of “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes,” with 10 elite athletes competing for the coveted Mirrorball trophy. Who do you think will go all the way? Who will be first to be eliminated. Join us and watch the premiere tonight and follow the teams (Twitter IDs below with bios).

How to Vote for this Season’s Dancing with the Stars: Athletes
There will be live voting and eliminations during TONIGHT’s LIVE BROADCAST in the ET/CT time zones of the Dancing with the Stars: Athletes which premiere at 8|7c, so be sure to follow this link to cast your votes! https://dwtsvote-live.abc.go.com/

Watch #DWTS tonight, MONDAY, APRIL 30 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand

Here is the list of the athletes with their professional dance partners (in alphabetical order):
• Adam Rippon with Jenna Johnson
• Arike Ogunbowale with Gleb Savchenko
• Chris Mazdzer with Witney Carson
• Jamie Anderson with Artem Chigvintsev
• Jennie Finch Daigle with Keo Motsepe
• Johnny Damon with Emma Slater
• Josh Norman with Sharna Burgess
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Lindsay Arnold
• Mirai Nagasu with Alan Bersten
• Tonya Harding with Sasha Farber

Meet the Athletes: Bios/Twitter Handles

ADAM RIPPON – Artist. Athlete. Activist. In addition to his recent team bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Rippon has garnered nine medals on the international circuit over the last four years, including the 2016 U.S. men’s championship title. Rippon is currently touring with Stars on Ice through the end of May, www.starsonice.com

Follow Adam: @Adaripp
Follow Jenna: @Dance10Jenna

ARIKE OGUNBOWALE – 2018 All American and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Arike Ogunbowale is a junior at Notre Dame and member of the women’s basketball team, who recently won the 2018 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament.

Follow Arike: @Arike_O
Follow Gleb: @Gleb_Savchenko

CHRIS MAZDZER – Mazdzer made history becoming the first-ever American athlete to win a medal in the Men’s Single Luge event. Mazdzer is continuing his training and intends to compete for Team USA one last time in 2022, in what will be his fourth Olympic Games.

Follow Chris: @mazdzer
Follow Witney: @WitneyCarson

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, a six-time NBA champion and the league’s only six-time MVP. His Emmy® Award-winning HBO Sports documentary, “Kareem: Minority of One,” debuted as HBO’s most watched and highest-rated sports documentary of all time.

Follow Kareem: @kaj33
Follow Lindsay: @lindsayarnold

JAMIE ANDERSON – Jamie Anderson is one of the top female snowboarders in the world and has won a record 15 X Games medals since she was 15 years old. In 2016 and 2017, Anderson had record-setting seasons. She earned two World Championship titles in Big Air and Slopestyle and finished in first place at the Olympic Snowboarding Slopestyle Test Event in South Korea, Winter X Games, U.S. Grand Prix, Quebec Big Air, U.S. Open, New Zealand Winter Games, European Open and LAXX Open.

Follow Jamie: @JamieAsnow
Follow Artem: @artemchigvintse

JENNIE FINCH DAIGLE – In 2004 at the Olympics in Athens, the team dominated their competitors and won the gold. Following the Olympics, she continues to act as an ambassador for both the game of softball and for female athletes in general.

Follow Jennie: @JennieFinch
Follow Keo: @keodancer

JOHNNY DAMON – A Major League Baseball star for 18 seasons, Johnny Damon is one of the most outstanding, respected and durable players in MLB. After winning the 2004 World Series with the Boston Red Sox and achieving legendary superstar status in New England, Damon signed with the New York Yankees in 2006. In 2009, he won a World Series with the Yankees, joining Babe Ruth, to be the only full-time, everyday players to achieve World Series rings with both the Red Sox and Yankees.

Follow Johnny: @JohnnyDamon
Follow Emma: @EmmaSlaterDance

JOSH NORMAN – Josh Norman became the highest-paid NFL cornerback in 2016 upon signing with the Washington Redskins after spending his previous four seasons with the Carolina Panthers. As he enters the seventh season of his NFL career, he proves to remain one of the most elite athletes at his position.

Follow Josh: @J_No24
Follow Sharna: @SharnaBurgess

MIRAI NAGASU – was one of the youngest competitors to win a national title in 2008 and remarkably has remained one of the top competitors in the world today. Nagasu earned a spot to represent the U.S. in the 2018 Olympics at the age of 24, where she made history by becoming the first American woman to land a triple Axel in an Olympic Winter Games. She performed the difficult three-and-a-half revolution jump, helping Team USA win a bronze medal in the Olympic team event.

Follow Mirai: @mirai_nagasu
Follow Alan: @Dance10Alan

TONYA HARDING – at age 18, she became the first American woman to win a Russian award as a figure skater. In 1991 at Senior Nationals, Harding skated two perfect programs and won her first national title. In 1994, she once again won the Nationals title and went on to compete at her second Olympics.

Follow Sasha: @SashaFarber
Tag Tonya: #TonyaHarding

About Dancing With the Stars
Hosted by two-time Emmy-winning host Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews, “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” is the hit series in which celebrities perform choreographed dance routines that are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including head judge, Len Goodman, and dancers/choreographers Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba. Find out more here http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars

“Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” is produced by BBC Studios. Andrew Llinares and Ashley Edens- Shaffer are executive producers. The show is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound. This program carries a TV-PG, L parental guideline.

About BBC Studios – Americas
BBC Studios, a global content company with British creativity at its heart, is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC. Formed in April 2018 by the merger of BBC Worldwide and BBC Studios, it spans content financing, development, production, sales, branded services, and ancillaries. BBC Studios’ award-winning British programs are internationally recognized across a broad range of genres and specialties. It has offices in 22 markets globally, including six production bases in the U.K., and a

further seven wholly owned and production partnerships internationally. The company, which makes over 2,500 hours of content a year, is a champion for British creativity around the world and a committed partner for the U.K.’s independent sector.
In the Americas, BBC Studios’ production unit in Los Angeles is responsible for ratings juggernaut “Dancing with the Stars,” critically acclaimed “The Night Of” and award-winning “Life Below Zero,” while local productions “Dancing Brasil” and “Bake Off Brasil” are breakout hits made in Brazil. The company manages joint venture relationships with AMC Networks for flagship channel BBC AMERICA (U.S.) – home of global brands “Planet Earth II,” “Blue Planet II,” “Doctor Who” and “Top Gear” – and with ITV for SVoD service BritBox (U.S./Canada), as well as strategic partnerships in Canada with Blue Ant Media for BBC Earth Channel, Corus for BBC Canada, and Knowledge Network for BBC Kids.

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