Apolo Ohno Retiring From Skating, Headed To Sochi As NBC Correspondent

Apolo Ohno is going to be in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics -- but sadly only as a correspondent for NBC.

Sorry to disappoint everyone who was hoping to see Apolo Ohno hit the ice at the 2014 Olympics, but it is not going to happen according to Ohno. Especially since Ohno revealed he is retiring.

"I think it's pretty sure at this point [that the comeback is] not going to be," said Ohno, the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian with eight medals, in a telephone interview Wednesday morning. "It was always in the back of my head. I just didn't want to rule it out. I've been very blessed, had such an amazing career, overcome a lot of obstacles in my life. It's time to try some different opportunities."

Those opportunities include working with the EIB All-Stars to raise awareness of exercise-induced bronchospasm, with which he was diagnosed in 2000.

He recently finished four weeks of filming as a host for Game Show Network's "Minute to Win it," which will air its first season beginning in June. Ohno also co-starred in a Syfy TV movie, "Tasmanian Devils," with Danica McKellar.

During his Olympic run, Ohno has won eight medals; most recently, he took home 3 of those in 2010. Apolo Ohno also walked away as the mirror ball champion on Dancing With The Stars in 2007, but failed to make the finals on the All Star season, as he was eliminated the week prior to the finale.