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Olympics: Why Not?

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With the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, BRA, coinciding with the German Open Championships in Stuttgart, the local press  (Stuttgarter Zeitung | Olympia - warum nicht?) looks at the possibility of DanceSport making it to the ranks of full-fledged Olympic sport.

Staff writer Patrick Lang talked to the chief executive of the German Open Championships Ltd., Mr Wilfried Scheible, about the chances and, more specifically, about the deterrents for this to happen in the foreseeable future. That trainers regularly officiate as judges at competitions is one of the pitfalls to DanceSport's successful campaign to get onto the programme of the Games. And there are a few more!

The 2016 GrandSlam Stuttgart Magazine that is published by the World DanceSport Federation and SWAROVSKI covers the sport's Olympic ambitions on page 10: Still Worth Fighting For!