Li Jie, director of the Social Sports Administration Center
under China's Sports Ministry, said on Wednesday that dancesport is
striving to gain a berth in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.
Li told a press conference that Social Sports Administration
Center is doing their utmost to help dancesport be listed in the
Guangzhou Asiad.
"Dancesport has entered the Asian Indoors Games in Thailand,
which proved a breakthrough for this sport, and it was also a
formal sport in the East-Asian Games in Macao. In both games, we
got good results and we are trying to make it a formal sport in the
2010 Asian Games."
"After the Doha Asian Games in December 2006, the program for
the Guangzhou edition may come out," He added.
As for dancesport's efforts to enter the Summer Olympic Games,
Li said: "World Dance and Dancesport Council (WDDSC) has spared no
efforts to achieve that goal but, as we know, it's very hard as the
International Olympic Committee has set a cap of 28 sports in the
Summer Olympiad. "
(Xinhua?News Agency?September 21, 2006)