There's new push to make a practice most commonly seen at nightclubs and some fitness gyms an Olympic sport. The Pole Fitness Association and other pole dancing advocacy groups are circulating petitions to have vertical dance added to the London 2012 lineup. There's currently about 6,400 signatures on the petition. They compare it to gymnastics and say the sport is athletic and has grown in popularity with more than 500 pole dancing fitness studios across the country.
