The fight for pole dancing to be included in the Olympics began, unlike most sports, in Ibiza’s party scene. More specifically, it was born inside the legendary Manumission Motel, a pink, triangular ...

It's Friday afternoon, and 12 people are gathered in a pole dancing class in Washington, D.C. They start warming up in front of a wall of mirrors, music at full blast. At first, it looks like any ...

Mary Serritella competes and performs here in Los Angeles and abroad. Her passion for the sport challenges society’s conceptions of age. “I just didn’t want to absorb that ‘I can’t’ attitude.” Her ...

A pole-dancing school in Atlanta is offering a "Mommy & Me" workshop — and the concept has some heads spinning. In a now-viral Instagram video, children are shown twirling, twisting and performing ...

Art, sport, workout, therapy: modern pole dancing has taken on many forms. A veteran stripper, a pole studio owner, and a young dancer discuss politics and identity in pole dancing and how practicing ...

Something rather uncomfortable got in the way of French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati advancing toward his Olympic dream. Ammirati’s manhood, still in his shorts, ended up clipping the crossbar and ...

Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...

Few athletes can claim to be as dominant in their discipline as Mondo Duplantis, the pole vault star who has broken the world record a staggering seven times. His latest record of 6.23 meters, ...