Pole for fitness as an Olympic sport, good or bad idea?

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I have been a pole dancer off and on for years. I retired from working in gentlemen's clubs almost two years ago. However after I gained some weight sitting around on my behind working on my degree with the Uof Phoenix online, I took it back up again. I love it! Ple dancing for fitness is a great workout, it sculpts and mshapes your body to perfection,it doesn't require a bunch of special equipment, nor does it take up a lot of space. There are studios all over the world that teach pole for fitness. Which really is a totally different thing from pole dancing in a club for money. The fitness, lifts, and tricks are tantamount and difficult. The Olympic committee is considering including pole fitness in the 2012 Olympics which are to be held in London. I like the idea, having been through both sides of the issue, I can really see the differences, pole dancing for fitness involves combinations and moves with high levels of difficulty, there is little or no floor work, and most gyration is incidental rather than a larger component of a set which it is in strip clubs. I am teaching a friend of mine who wants, to learn, worked in clubs for a couple of years, but broke her back and has been in pain ever since. She is getting quite a bit of benefit above and beyond the expectations of her physicians so I think that she should continue. She has also brought both her 12 year old and 14 year old daughters over here to take lessons too. They are very enthusiastic and both are fast learners so I don't mind teaching them at all. Even my daughter who is going to be 20 years old soon told me that she would like to learn pole for fitness a couple of years ago, when she found out that I was teaching classes at a Bally's total fitness. I hagve however run into disbelief and resistance to the idea as well as disapproval of me teaching teanagers to dance. They also don't have internet access and thus they think that I am making up the Olympic thing. However you can go to any search engine and type in "pole dancing in the olympics" or another related search string and you will find that what I am saying is true. The only detractors I have spoken with have been men, and a group of nasty mean feminists with Phd's and narrow little minds. They cannot seem to divide the two pole for club and pole for fitness. They also do not believe that it will ever be a sport and they refer to pole for fitness as stripping. We got the requisite number of on and offline signatures to enter the sport for consideration but I would like to know what you think of it as an Olympic sport?