No Girls Allowed?

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WTF? The Olympic powers-that-be are still refusing to allow women to compete in ski jumping?

Gian-Franco Kasper, head of the International Ski Federation claims "Ski jumping is just too dangerous for women. Don't forget, [the landing] it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters to the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2...ilykos/index+(Daily+Kos)&utm_content=FaceBook
 
WinterBorn said:
WTF? The Olympic powers-that-be are still refusing to allow women to compete in ski jumping?

Gian-Franco Kasper, head of the International Ski Federation claims "Ski jumping is just too dangerous for women. Don't forget, [the landing] it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters to the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2...ilykos/index+(Daily+Kos)&utm_content=FaceBook
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It's because women will outperform the men, their bodies are better designed for this particular competition. The "too dangerous" argument is plain idiotic. If that were true then they'd never let them compete in moguls, for instance.
 
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Quick, somebody call Gloria Allred.

Emmanuelle Moreau, an I.O.C. spokeswoman, said its members could vote as early as next year to include women in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Women’s ski jumping will be an event at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

The exclusion of women from ski jumping and Nordic combined, which comprises cross-country skiing and ski jumping, has persisted even as the International Olympic Committee has pushed to expand opportunities for female athletes in recent years. Women’s wrestling joined the Olympics in 2004, and women’s boxing will make its debut in London in 2012. At these Winter Games, women make up about 40 percent of competitors.

The I.O.C. has argued that women’s ski jumping does not yet have enough elite female competitors to warrant inclusion. Female ski jumpers and their advocates have disputed this argument, pointing out that other sports, like snowboard cross and ski cross, were added to the Winter Games even though they are relatively new, undeveloped sports. The United States, for example, did not qualify a women’s ski cross team.
 
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