DiSpirito Gets Second "Dance"

Rocco DiSpirito will get a second helping of "Dancing With The Stars."

The chef came in last place on the ABC dancing competition, and should have been eliminated. But he wasn't dismissed because injured contestant Misty May-Treanor dropped out of the competition Monday.

The two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist had surgery Tuesday to repair her left Achilles' tendon that was torn while rehearsing for a jive routine on the show's ballroom set Friday.

"I think Misty had the potential to get all the way through to the final," said judge Len Goodman.

May-Treanor appeared at the conclusion of Monday's show on crutches and with a cast on her left leg to announce that she injured herself while rehearsing on Friday and would withdraw from the popular dancing competition.

"I was like, 'OK, I'm an athlete. Tape it up and get back out there,"' she said in a release issued by USA Volleyball. "I never thought in a million years, especially in ballroom, that I would hurt myself."

An Olympic champion in Athens and Beijing with partner Kerri Walsh, May-Treanor had planned to take time off from beach volleyball to have children with her husband, Florida Marlins catcher Matt Treanor.

"I'm extremely disappointed for Misty," Walsh said from Dubai, where she was competing in an international beach volleyball tournament. "She is disappointed that she could not continue, as she was really enjoying the experience."

The other celebrities remaining in the competition: model-actress Brooke Burke; former Oakland Raiders defensive lineman Warren Sapp; singers Lance Bass and Toni Braxton; Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene; actresses Cloris Leachman and Susan Lucci and actor Cody Linley.