2) I did not realize that pole dancing had anything to do with the pole on the stage...
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press
TOKYO – Zoraya Judd says there is nothing she would rather do than pole dance. She's one of the best in the world at it and someday, she says, there might even be a place for her talents in the Olympics.
Riding a wave of popularity that has transformed a striptease genre into a cleaned-up and clothed version for fitness clubs around the world, Judd and dozens of the world's top pole dancers — male and female — gathered in Tokyo this week for the International Pole Dancing Championships, a premier event in the budding sport.
As always — the championships are in their third year — it was a colorful field.
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