Wed, 21 May 2008 at 1:56 am

Kristi Yamaguchi Wins Dancing With The Stars

After ten weeks of entertaining drama, camaraderie and dazzling performances, figure-skating champ Kristi Yamaguchi and her professional partner Mark Ballas, were crowned champion of Dancing with the Stars.

“This is just the icing on the cake,” Kristi said after winning the mirrored disco ball. “I honestly thank all the fans out there … everyone who’s made this a dream experience.”

Kristi got a perfect score of 60 on Monday’s show and in combination with enough viewer votes, she was crowned the winner on Tuesday night.

Watch the DWTS winners announcemnt here.

CONGRATS, KRISTI!

20+ pictures inside of Kristi and Mark’s win…

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Photos: Michael Desmond/ABC
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# 26

DWTS FANATIC @ 05/21/2008 at 1:20 pm

meg…the reason they’re [drew, mario, marissa, sabrina] all eligible to dance is because although they dance for their professions they have NO BALLROOM EXPERIENCE.

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# 27

Yippee! @ 05/21/2008 at 1:53 pm

Kristi is just great. She is an ice skater, so she probably learns things quickly. That’s what champs are made of.

Congrats to Kristi. She was one of the few reasons why I watched the Olympics.

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# 28

sasha @ 05/21/2008 at 2:52 pm

Ya. I think she did kind of had an unfair advantage. She’s pretty much used to doing ballroom-like routines on ice. I mean I know ice skating and ballroom dancing aren’t the exact same thing, but to me it seems close enough to where ballroom dancing wouldn’t be much of a stretch from the moves she does on ice. I think that between her, Christian, and Jason - Jason and Christian earned it more. That’s because it was much more challenging to them. They worked their butts off and showed improvements since week 1.

Don’t get me wrong I have absolutely nothing against Kristi, she’s great, but I don’t think they should cast any figure skaters in the competition. It wouldn’t be too fair to the rest of the cast.

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# 29

yeah @ 05/21/2008 at 7:43 pm

I’m glad Kristi won over Jason but it would have been such a joy to see Cristian win! He’s the one that’s improved the most out of everyone. I wish he would have at least gotten second. He’s clearly a better dancer than Jason, not to mention, he’s got more charisma & he’s sexy as f**k!

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# 30

KC @ 05/21/2008 at 10:31 pm

Thanks, Jared!

Congratulations to Mark Ballas and Kristi Yamaguchi (wonder if her children are skating)? I didn’t miss a vote this season….

Last season I was so shocked that Mark and Sabrina were eliminated as I expected them to go all the way….hope they’re still a young couple!

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