Apolo Anton Ohno wins the most US Olympic medals and is the most reviled athlete in South Korea

Apolo Anton Ohno wins the most US Winter Olympic medals and is the most reviled athlete in South Korea. Saturday, at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Apolo Anton Ohno broke the record for the most medals received by a US athlete at the Winter Olympic Games. Saturday, Apolo Anton Ohno won the bronze medal in the Men’s Speed Skating 1000m, and now has seven Olympic medals.

Apolo Anton Ohno, 27, is the USA's most decorated Winter Olympian.

Speed skater Bonnie Blair held the last record of six Olympic medals. Blair was at the race Saturday and said: "I'm very happy for Apolo's accomplishment. It's a great feat for him."

This is Apolo Anton Ohno’s third Olympic Games and began his medal collection at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.  Ohno also currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"It means a lot to me," Ohno said. "Especially in a sport like this, there's not many athletes that come to back-to-back Olympic Games and medal — very, very few. For me to be able to do it in three Games, I'm very happy, I'm very blessed."

Ironically, Apolo Anton Ohno is called the most reviled athlete in South Korea, and according to ABC News has been called the "king of fouls" in South Korea.

This is what ABC News had to say about the most reviled athlete in South Korea and Apolo Anton Ohno:
The bad blood goes back eight years to the Salt Lake City Olympics, where South Koreans believe Ohno stole the gold from Kim Dong-sung, who finished first in the 1,500-meter race but was disqualified for blocking. Ohno, then a teenager competing in his first Olympics, threw up his arms as he tried to pass Kim, as though to cry foul.

As Ohno stepped up to claim his gold, his joy only sealed South Koreans' disgust for an athlete lambasted as ungracious and unsportsmanlike. Thousands of angry anti-Ohno e-mails shut down the U.S. Olympic Committee server for nine hours.

Hatred of Ohno is said to have fueled anti-American sentiment back then, and it doesn't help that his father, Yuki, was born in Japan, the nation that colonized Korea from 1910 to 1945. South Koreans try to trounce Japan as often as possible on the playing field, and Ohno is not exempt.

Ohno has been called a very aggressive player by the South Koreans and he is, and that is what it takes to win speed skating. Saturday night, after Ohno won his seventh medal, he looked up at his Dad and held up his hands to show 7 numbers.

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Sources: USA Today and ABC News

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