The Olympic Committee has officially stripped the WDSF of their status. It has been a long and exhausting struggle to protect the athletes but we finally reached the outcome we needed. Keep watching this space because our work to ensure a truly united future for dance must continue.
July 12, 2015
Final supporters
In 2012 the United States Olympic Organisation submitted the following words to the World DanceSport Federation that“. . . athletes should not be used as pawns in disagreements between sports organizations. Stated in another way, athletes should not be used as a way to gain an advantage by one organization over another. This not only is in violation of the athlete’s right to practice sport, but merely causes retaliation by both organizations against athletes who compete in the other organization’s events, placing the athletes in the middle, without recourse and without having committed any wrong, except fulfilling their desire to compete. It further ignores that competition among organizations can be beneficial to sport.”
The World Dance Sport Federation has rejected this and the Olympic Charter and they have brought division and disunity to a once united sport. Their support is declining.
If you believe in dancers rights, the freedom to choose your own future and to bring unity back to dance please sign this petition called on the Olympic Organisation to expel as their Internatonal Federation the World Dancesport Federation and only readmit dancesport when it is at peace and the two major organisations working together for a better future for all .
Updates
June 27, 2015
We just hit 500 signatures. It is exhausting to keep pushing against an organization that ignores the damage they cause but seeing this level of support makes the long hours feel less hollow.
Reached 500 supporters
June 24, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
June 14, 2015
117 Comments
I was banned because i danced a fantastic competition that the WDSF did not recognise. How can an organisation like that even have an olympic IF status?
the WDSF have abided their IOC status and used it to implement what is tantamount to artistic terrorism- everyone knows that. It has to stop - NOW !
Freedom to dance without any form of threats or bans. The only bans that should be enforced in sport are those for sports corruption and drugs.
The WDSF has used its sanction for personal gain and has consistently abused the Olympic charter. It has also attempted and frequently succeeded in acting as a monopoly by strong arm tactics aimed at other organizations and independent competitors, coaches, and adjudicators.
If getting dancing into the Olympics changes our art so much that it becomes unrecognizable & at the same time it creates a huge rift in the World of ballroom dancing, with dancers being banned for dancing at long standing prestigious events. .It's simply not worth it.
Think about Which organisation can organise and elect judges for a Hiphop Dance art like Breaking. Certainly no ballroom organisation!!!
Freedom To Dance !
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The Olympic Committee has officially stripped the WDSF of their status. It has been a long and exhausting struggle to protect the athletes but we finally reached the outcome we needed. Keep watching this space because our work to ensure a truly united future for dance must continue.
July 12, 2015
Final supporters
In 2012 the United States Olympic Organisation submitted the following words to the World DanceSport Federation that“. . . athletes should not be used as pawns in disagreements between sports organizations. Stated in another way, athletes should not be used as a way to gain an advantage by one organization over another. This not only is in violation of the athlete’s right to practice sport, but merely causes retaliation by both organizations against athletes who compete in the other organization’s events, placing the athletes in the middle, without recourse and without having committed any wrong, except fulfilling their desire to compete. It further ignores that competition among organizations can be beneficial to sport.”
The World Dance Sport Federation has rejected this and the Olympic Charter and they have brought division and disunity to a once united sport. Their support is declining.
If you believe in dancers rights, the freedom to choose your own future and to bring unity back to dance please sign this petition called on the Olympic Organisation to expel as their Internatonal Federation the World Dancesport Federation and only readmit dancesport when it is at peace and the two major organisations working together for a better future for all .
Updates
June 27, 2015
We just hit 500 signatures. It is exhausting to keep pushing against an organization that ignores the damage they cause but seeing this level of support makes the long hours feel less hollow.
Reached 500 supporters
June 24, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
June 14, 2015
117 Comments
WDSF disgust me, over many years. They asked WDC not to interfere with the IOC and let them get recognized to power-share after, then betrayed and waged war.
I was banned because i danced a fantastic competition that the WDSF did not recognise. How can an organisation like that even have an olympic IF status?
the WDSF have abided their IOC status and used it to implement what is tantamount to artistic terrorism- everyone knows that. It has to stop - NOW !
Freedom to dance without any form of threats or bans. The only bans that should be enforced in sport are those for sports corruption and drugs.
The WDSF has used its sanction for personal gain and has consistently abused the Olympic charter. It has also attempted and frequently succeeded in acting as a monopoly by strong arm tactics aimed at other organizations and independent competitors, coaches, and adjudicators.
If getting dancing into the Olympics changes our art so much that it becomes unrecognizable & at the same time it creates a huge rift in the World of ballroom dancing, with dancers being banned for dancing at long standing prestigious events. .It's simply not worth it.
Think about Which organisation can organise and elect judges for a Hiphop Dance art like Breaking. Certainly no ballroom organisation!!!
Freedom To Dance !
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WDSF disgust me, over many years. They asked WDC not to interfere with the IOC and let them get recognized to power-share after, then betrayed and waged war.