Strippers in the Olympics?
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
NBC may soon have something to break up the breathless beach volleyball coverage. The International Pole Sports Federation is siphoning off the sex through stringent regulations, ahead of a potential bid to become recognized as an Olympic sport.
“We're trying to be stricter here and become respected as a sport,†said Florenza Pizanis, 43, a pole-dancing coach in Dortmund, Germany, and head of the International Pole Sports Federation's technical committee, which wrote the rules and applied them for the first time at the London championships.
Among the written regulations: no dancing “in an overtly erotic mannerâ€â€”banned, for example, is “gluteal danceâ€â€”and no “hats, canes and anything that is not considered attached to the costume.â€
Removing the canes may upset the Pole Sports purists.
In an Olympic climate where wrestling must justify its continuation while “sports†such as short-track BMX riding are added, we give this a 50/50 shot. After all, mouth agape leering is 40 percent less skeevy with rules and form-fitting athletic wear.
“We're trying to be stricter here and become respected as a sport,†said Florenza Pizanis, 43, a pole-dancing coach in Dortmund, Germany, and head of the International Pole Sports Federation's technical committee, which wrote the rules and applied them for the first time at the London championships.
Among the written regulations: no dancing “in an overtly erotic mannerâ€â€”banned, for example, is “gluteal danceâ€â€”and no “hats, canes and anything that is not considered attached to the costume.â€
Removing the canes may upset the Pole Sports purists.
In an Olympic climate where wrestling must justify its continuation while “sports†such as short-track BMX riding are added, we give this a 50/50 shot. After all, mouth agape leering is 40 percent less skeevy with rules and form-fitting athletic wear.
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As for pole dancing, to keep the sport pure the contestants should have to compete naked or at least topless.
If the did that I bet Candydude would be glue to the TV bong in one hand and twizzlers in the other...with his pants off trying to decide which to put down!!! Groove on Candydude!!!
I'd rather they just create a sex Olympics. Nude art posing could be one sport, nude pole dancing another, topless beach volleyball another, Nude water polo, the list could go on. Then put the event on the playboy channel and possibly Cinemax or hbo so a lot of people can watch. Maybe you might get some real competitors entering the competition if enough took it seriously.