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Billboards in support of Women's ski jumping in next Olympics
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Canada's women ski jumpers haven't given up their fight to compete in the 2010 Olympic Games. On Friday, their supporters put up billboards in Greater Vancouver that highlight the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to keep women's ski jumping out of the 2010 games is a glaring contradiction.
The billboards quote the Olympic Charter's belief in gender equality: "Just imagine -- implementing the principle of equality of men and women. Let women ski jump in 2010," reads one of the signs.
...To make sure Olympic officials don't miss the point, one of the billboards was put up right opposite the Vancouver Organizing Committee's (VANOC) headquarters. The signs went up at the same time that the federal minister in charge of the Olympics was giving $20 million taxpayer dollars to the games.

The women have also set up an online petition, which has already collected 6,400 names. VANOC officials say the decision to include women's ski jumping at the Games is up to the IOC.

Opposition politicians in Canada also plan to table motions in Parliament and the B.C. legislature this week to push the IOC to change its mind and add women's ski jumping to the Games that Canada is hosting.

Sources: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080222/ski_jump_080222/20080222?hub=TopStories and http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5juk2QyQmEE9GP0ZkKjEb-r2DMrmA
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Whatever next? ....this is a slippery slope Toofy Grin
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International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has said he believes that including women's ski jumping in the 2010 Winter Games would "dilute" the medals because not enough women are participating yet in the sport.

See: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/28022008/58/ioc-defends-ski-jump-axe.html
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I can see the matter of principle, but I can also see the practicality:

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But advocates of women's ski jumping say the sport has broader appeal than others in the Vancouver-Whistler Games. They say there are 135 female ski jumpers in 16 countries.


135 is hardly a huge range from which to determine an Olympic champion. Mind you, I wonder if thee are other, approved, sports with dodgy numbers for a claim to Olympic fame.
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Topless women ski jumpers Confused Cool
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achilles wrote:
135 is hardly a huge range from which to determine an Olympic champion. Mind you, I wonder if thee are other, approved, sports with dodgy numbers for a claim to Olympic fame.

How does 135 stack up against mainstream Winter Olympic events like "Aerials"?
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Surely they could do the normal intermediate thing and make it a demonstration sport at the games. Others games can later give it full status when the publicity has raised the numbers competing. I can't see why women couldn't compete at this at the same level as the men.
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