'Dancing With the Stars' taps Adam Rippon and Tonya Harding for athlete season

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'Dancing With the Stars' taps Adam Rippon and Tonya Harding for athlete season
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Dancing With the Stars: Athletes is about to be our next Winter Olympics fix. The ABC competition will pair professional athletes with professional dancers (don't come at me with your "dance is a sport" takes, not now), including Olympic darling Adam Rippon and, er, former Olympian Tonya Harding.

The full lineup was announced Friday on Good Morning America and includes another skater, a snowboarder, and a luger, as well as athletes sports we get obsessed with annually like baseball, basketball, and football.

  • 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

A press release from ABC referred to Rippon as "one of the most dramatic figure skaters on the planet" and "an icon to millions" (true!). Harding's notes her impressive career as a skater (culminating in "a scandal" in 1994) and boxer.

Dancing With the Stars: Athletes premieres April 30 AT 8 P.M. EDT on ABC.

Topics Olympics

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Proma Khosla

Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.

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