I'd sign a petition to bring this to the Olympics

Fill a room with 5 poles, 5 competitors, & 10 judges each holding 100 $1 bills.
Whichever competitor comes out holding the most $1 bills wins.
What's so hard about that ?

I think the more important task would be for talent scouts to venture out across America with corporate sponsored cars and expense accounts to find the first American Olympic Pole Dancing Team. I, as an American, would be honored to volunteer for this task, in order to serve my Country.

Lol. who will not . Atleast makes Olympics actually worth watching ..

I'll sign the petition!! Sports are the health and future of our youth!!

Every fathers dream, to hear their wife say "Your daughters pole dancing competition is tonight, don't be late!".

Daddy's sorry he couldn't make it to your competition honey, but he was obligated to judge another competition down at Barneys last nite.

all jokes aside, it is extremely athletically challenging - you could have a competition in it just as meaningful as, say, synchronised swimming, figure skating, or regular gymnastics.....

I believe it.
When I was a kid I had a rope swing in my back yard made of a 1 & 1/2 inch thick rope tied to a tree about 25 feet in the air. I used to swing around on that rope 20 feet in the air hanging upside down with 2 other people on the bottom of the rope swinging around, as well as anything else you could think to do with the rope. It's a miracle I never broke my neck.
That took a lot of strength, I'd imagine comparable to that of swinging around on a pole.