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Tokyo Strip Clubs: Pole dancers seek Olympic recognition

TOKYO | The 2010 Winter Olympics wound to an end yesterday, and for Japan’s Mai Sato, watching all those gold medals being handed out in Vancouver was a bittersweet experience.
Ms. Sato knows the demands of being the best. In her world, blisters are the rule, bruises a way of life. And the training five hours a day, five days a week.

Absolutely, say thousands of pole dancers and the rapidly growing number of international and national federations transforming what was once the exclusive property of strip clubs and cheap bars into a respectable and highly athletic event.
“I could definitely see pole dancing in the Olympics,” said Ms. Sato, who, a dancer since the age of 3, out-twirled a bevy of athletes from 11 countries at the second International Pole Dancing Fitness Championships in Tokyo two months ago. “I would love to win a gold medal.”

See the full article from “Washington Times”

~ by nikki on March 8, 2010.

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