Demand a change! From powerlifting to Accessory Lifting.

Olympic Weightlifting, the only barbell sport in the Olympics has two primary movements, "Snatch" and "Clean & Jerk". In training they may execute squats, deadlifts, and pressing movements but they are for aiding in progress of those primary movements. Also known as "accessory lifts."

We just need to rename the activity "powerlifting" to "accessory lifting", or even "Accessory Lifting" as a global standard. It's going to be really hard to grow the activity of Accessory Lifting if people are always confusing it with the sport of Weightlifting. If possible, limit the 5,000,000 various active powerlifting activity groups(aka federations) to 1 calendar year to change their name to Accessory Lifting.

pri·ma·ry: of chief importance; principal.

ac·ces·so·ry: contributing to or aiding an activity or process in a minor way; subsidiary or supplementary.

This petition will be presented to the most powerful and second most powerful people in the World(according to Forbes)-- Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel. If anyone can put these much needed changes into effect, it's them.