http://www.policymic.com/articles/81665/for-the-first-time-in-history-female-ski-jumpers-can-go-for-olympic-gold
Believe it or not, the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi mark the first time women will be able to compete for gold in ski jumping. That's right: Despite being one of the 16 original events in the inaugural Winter Games in 1924, competing in Olympic ski jumping has only been open to men.But that's finally changed this year, and women's ski jumping will make its Olympic debut on Feb. 11.For years, the International Olympic Committee cited a variety of excuses for why they would not hold a women's ski jumping event. Female ski jumpers have petitioned to join the games every year since Nagano in 1998, but the IOS refused to budge. At the 2010 Vancouver games,the IOC denied the request saying that "Women's Ski Jumping does not reach the necessary technical criteria and as such does not yet warrant a place alongside other Olympic events."
the war on women because they are women the same women that birthed the bigot chauvinist that deny them everything right down to what they can do with their own bodies.
IMO i think men are insecure and that they fear women out doing them on the international stage. they have tried to make the world a man cave restricting where women can go and what they can do, but most claim to love dear ol mom.
btw what the hell is necessary technical criteria, is that like jim crow poll taxes, it is code for saying "no we don't want them in the games"
To be fair, at the time, women's ski jumping wasn't nearly as established as it is now. Back in the mid 2000s, there was no women's world ski jumping championships, and women's participation in International Ski Federation's (FIS) Continental Cup — a notch below a world championship — had been for only two years.The sport just wasn't known enough to warrant a spot in the Olympics, so the story went. But it got even worse. In 2005, FIS president and IOC member Gian Franco Kasper said he opposed women's ski jumping because it "seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."Then in 2009, Van and nine other female jumpers sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for violating the ban on gender discrimination in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While the British Columbia Supreme Court agrees with Van and ruled that the IOC had violated the law, they were an international body and therefore not subject to Canada's constitutional laws.
what were they afraid a breast would fall out of their ski suits this no more than discrimination and an effort to deny women world status technically a war on women. this is a man's world but it wouldn't be nothing without a women. recognize
