Posted on 12/06/2011 10:19:35 AM PST by Scythian
The criteria for being considered a new Olympic sport is certainly evolving.
In 2009, the IOC deemed golf, rugby and women's boxing as worthy additions - but popular sports such as baseball, softball and karate were nixed.
Now another "sport" is staking its claim as Olympic caliber - pole dancing.
The campaign to get pole dancing into the Games has been in the works for a couple of years. But now, according to the Washington Post, the Pole Fitness Association and other like-minded groups are circulating petitions to get the dance form in the 2012 London Games.
Pole dancing may conjure up images of strip clubs but these days it's more about health clubs. The sensual dance is now commonly called "pole fitness" or "vertical dance" and according to the AFP, there are more than 500 pole dancing fitness studios across the U.S. Indeed, serious pole dancers arguably have athletic chops similar to some Olympic gymnasts.
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Yeah, but pole dancing will drive the muzzies nuts.
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In other news:
Men win Battle of the Sexes
by Joe Satire (AP) Men were winning this battle after convincing women to abort babies as a birth control measure, completely absolving men of any responsibility for sexual promiscuity whatsoever, and after convincing them that holding front line combat positions was a sign of ‘equality’.
Now women, of their own volition, have lobbied to have ‘pole dancing’, which is a method of x-rated dancing that allows men to view the genitals of women without craning their necks, as an olympic sport.
“We new we were winning when women looked at carrying the .50 cal as being a plum job. With this, I think donkey punching will probably be common, if not legal, by this time next year.”
Men are now getting together to celebrate in local bars over the news at 11 AM on Friday. When asked whether their bosses would be upset at the lost time, the men replied that since their wives were now outearning them, and pulling in child support for past marriages, there was no need for them to get a job.
“I just need to make sure the pole we’ve got installed in the living room can take all that practice. USA! USA! USA!”
Good point.
Well folks, if you like the prospect of network cameras focusing on men’s junk full screen as they spread eagle for your children, then support this all you like.
I won’t be.
This is not the type of activity I would allow my daughter to join in either.
This is an attempt to bring the strip club pole mainstream.
“Hey, you’ve done it for fitness girls, why not get paid for it?”
Ah, no thanks...
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This will help you practice up for weeziana........
Cant be any worse than beach volleyball..
Yikes !!
That is one SERIOUSLY athletic hottie!
I believe it was this last season that America’s Got Talent had a pole dancing transvestite on. Here’s a program the whole family should be able to watch, and the judges were fawning over this guy like they secretly wanted to hook-up.
I’m 60 years old, so perhaps I’m behind the curve here, but it was unreal to me to see this stuff piped into the homes across the U.S.
Here was a guy decked out to the homosexual max, and spreading his legs to the camera as far as he could, bulges all all right there on the screen for everyone to enjoy.
I found it exceptionally offensive.
They're actually series.
Somehow methinks "pole dancing" isn't what I thought it was...
The Texas Olympics
I know it! She is amazing.
Vertical Dancing BumP!
Track and field plus boxing, wrestling, swimming, and weight lifting is all that matters to me. I might be leaving out one or two events but I can’t think of what they would be. If its not a race or a feat of strength, it doesn’t belong in the olympics...downhill sledding or downhill skiing doesn’t cut it in my book.
ok, various martial arts, fencing, and various shooting sports also belong. But obviously the decathalon is the number one most important event...triathalon number two.
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