<B>Contenders - Mark Ballas and Julianne Hough - Dancers</B><BR>By Chloe Diski in The Observer<P><BR>Let's get this straight. Competitive ballroom and Latin dancing should never be confused with ballroom dancing. For those in the know it is strictly 'Dancesport' and woe betide anyone who forgets this term or - an even greater sin - questions whether Dancesport should be made into an Olympic event. 'The word ballroom. That word stinks,' says Corky Ballas who, with his wife Shirley, was international Dancesport champion for the UK in the Nineties. Now their 15-year-old son Mark is continuing the Ballas tradition with his 13-year-old partner, Julianne Hough. <P><A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4364340,00.html" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><BR>