Nicole, a skilled dancer when she entered the competition, add that to her natural talent and it was easy to see why she was able to dominate throughout season 10..
Her closest competitor was Evan Lysacek partnered by Anna Trebunskaya who even though he was a gold-medal figure skater with readily transferable skills just could not catch up,
The main defference was in the make up of this seasons show normally picks famous people who are famous in other pursuits and turns them into dancers. In Nicole, they actually picked a famous dancer teamed her with arguabley the best male professional dancer and told them to improve as a ballroom pair, and consistently they did.
At times the judges found themselves in a dilemma because she was always streets ahead of Evan, her performances could at times have been judged on professional levels but the judges were asked to judge dancing, and Nicole was the best dancer.
The judges can't be faulted for having started to give Nicole 10s very early in the competition - she was better than everyone else. If anything, they tried to think of reasons to mark her down, from rule violations to failure to abide to the strict rules of each form, desperately attempting to make it look like she wasn't miles ahead in training and ability from the day she was added to the cast.
Evan though, his finale dances were always too far behind to realisticly trouble Nicole but the one thing that could be said for season 10 was Evan and Nicole treated the audiences to some the best routines ever delivered.
It's easy talking about the two finalists but lets not forget Erin, of all the other contestants she was the one who improved the most over the season. Take Erin and Maksim's rehearsals, it was clearly visible how hard she had worked to improve and dismiss all her self doubt, and in those terms Erin was the real winner and we applaud her efforts.
Nicole deserved her victory, she was by far the best dancer the judges told her - that she's by far the best natural and technical dancer they've ever cast so again lets not take anything away from Nicole she is a worthy winner.
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