Pole Dancing: An Olympic Event

**ThexMrs** · 03-02-2010 02:09 PM

Hey,

So I was reading an article in the print Newspaper the other day about a woman who thinks that Pole Dancing should be an Olympic event. She stated that she is a World Champion in her sport, she's athletic, dedicated and just as competitive as those in the Olympics already and believes that it's time she got recognition for this.

My question is simple: What do you think?

**dr.mansview** · 03-02-2010 02:20 PM

i think when she was learning she fell on her head once too often..if they do incorporate it, make it a challenge..put it in the winter games..if she can't keep her movement at a constant pace she'll stick to the pole..

**Hopeless Dork** · 03-02-2010 02:46 PM

Your average stripper in club is likely to touch the pole, crouch around it... etc nothing spectacular. My friend who use to be a dancer did a little pole, but mostly just used it as a prop...she didn't like all the bruises etc on her legs from doing it too much.

SOME of those women, however are freekin amazing, and use just as much athletic technique as an olympic gymnist .. and make an artform out of it, truly. With as much as strippers and strip clubs have gone so far mainstream that june cleaver housewifes have stripper poles in their home for excercise etc... I don't think it pole dancing in the olympics would make people raise too much of an eyebrow. Especially if they kept their tops on it for it.

**Isabellacat** · 03-02-2010 05:04 PM

Doing the split on a stripper pole takes mad skillz!!! lol When you think about it, it's actually just another form of gymnastics.

**ThexMrs** · 03-02-2010 06:30 PM

I agree with all of you to a certain extent. I just feel that if they won't allow sports such as: Karate, baseball, softball, etc then why allow something like that?

**GlitterAndStuds** · 03-03-2010 06:32 AM

I agree that there could be other sports in there before stripping. While I can totally see there being competitions, and really cool ones at that (because I've seen some REAL talented strippers that don't dance like they're in a blender), I think.... I dunno, in the OLYMPICS is a tad bit much.

**stressed** · 03-03-2010 06:39 AM

In other words: eye-candy for the male viewers. No, thanks, we have enough of that already. To give a gold metal plus a significant amount of money to a professional or potential stripper is not really my kind of "sport spirit" or the kind of sport ancient Greeks had in mind when they started the Olympics.

Let's make sex an olympic sport too then, or dishwashing, or vacuum cleaning, or driving, or potato peeling. What's wrong with those?

**KMonte85** · 03-03-2010 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by stressed

In other words: eye-candy for the male viewers. No, thanks, we have enough of that already. To give a gold metal plus a significant amount of money to a professional or potential stripper is not really my kind of "sport spirit" or the kind of sport ancient Greeks had in mind when they started the Olympics.

Let's make sex an olympic sport too then, or dishwashing, or vacuum cleaning, or driving, or potato peeling. What's wrong with those?

I think I may actually be able to win a medal for potato peeling! That would be awesome hahaha

As for the pole dancing.. nah, that's minor league stuff compared to what gymasts already do. How about the uneven bars? So thats two poles... only they are horizontal, uneven, about 10 ft above the ground, and gymasts are expected to move flawlessly between them, doing splits, twists, turns, flips, and other moves.... Lets see your everyday Stripperella do that??