Pole dancers want to be part of the 2016 Olympics
The Olympics have a long list of abandoned events that sound like they could never belong next to staples such as track and field and synchronized swimming.
That has given a lot of leagues and federations of more obscure sports or activities the inspiration to lobby for a spot in the next Olympiad. The International Pole Sports Federation is no exception, according to the Huffington Post.
The leading global authority on pole dancing has turned what was once just a skill passed on by strippers to seduce men from their money into a fitness movement. It is now an aerobic and strength-training exercise practiced by women (and even men) around the world.
Now the IPSF feels it is worthy enough to award Olympic medals for the best pole dancers in the world. They even tried to pitch the idea by holding the World Pole Sport Championship in London more than a week before the start of the Summer Olympics. IPSF Executive Vice President Timothy Trautman said getting the sport in the Olympics is the only way to prove that "pole dancers are incredible athletes."
Of course, the average American male doesn't need the Olympics to prove them.
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I like a good pole dance just as much as the next guy but in the Olympics? I think we have disgraced the Olympics by allowing professionals to compete and now pole dancing? Do we tip?
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Let's see, Baseball is out,pole dancing is in. Scheduled for the 2020 games: Speed Shoe Tieing. Can't wait!!!
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Cheer leading, Ballroom Dancing, Bowling, Knot Tying, and Karma Sutra style competitive breeding ALL should be Olympic Sports. The TV networks could try it out and see how many watch.
The Olympics is all about how much money is made so if it is popular, it could get in. Why not pole dancing? Or Fishing? Alligator wrestling. Big truck mud bogging. AND drinking and eating contests?
ALL would attract an audience. Maybe even bigger than curling!
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Yes I agree, But do not include Presidential Debates.
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Well where as I'm not for it I would gladly have pole dancing verses running around a mat waiving a ribbon and calling it a sport!
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Google BEST Pole Dance Ever by Jenyne Butterfly 2011 and watch her. You will not be able to say she is not an Olympic class athlete.
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The first time I saw Jenyne Butterfly made a believer out of me, once you see her you will know what an Olympic class athlete looks like on a pole.
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Hey Im all for the Pole Dancine compition
but in the original Olympic tradition
they compete NUDE -
What's next after that, Olympic lap dancing, Olympic blow jobs?
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Nahh:
Slick Willy; would win plus he would get extra credit for ruining his partners clothing. But
the Olympic Commitie might make a lot of money by selling official knee pads. -
Pole Dancing? And they dropped a legitimate sport "Soft Ball" What’s next Olympic Pimps? Or perhaps Olympic Porn Championship. Get Real.
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Sure - and theyll probably get rid of a legit sport like Rhythmic Gymnastics
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Pole Dancing? What is next, pimping? Well why not they have already banished "Soft Ball" Now perhaps they will have a Porn Event, Tell you what; a good sport to go along with pole dancing would be Pocket Pool, the people that sit in bars and watch pole dancers are good at that. GET REAL.
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I am completely shocked at the ignorance of the comments I'm reading and the clear bias of the "article" itself. While I have no problems with lap dancing,stripping and many of the other references here, there is a pretty big difference between lap dancing, stripping and pole dancing. I lift my own body weight into the air at a slow controlled speed, bruise up my arms and legs so that I won't crack my head open on the ground, and spin on a spinner pole that would make the average person puke their guts out-- and I'm not even one of the professional pole dancers. Go to a class and take note of how your muscles feel the next day. What pole dancers do is absolutely on par with any gymast but we also have to endure the ignorant comments about how our sport is not legitimate.
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Right on Carlene!
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Oh, it's a sport alright. I'm sporting something just thinking about it...
