On 1/9/2014 11:46 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

> There has been a controversy over women's ski jumping. Women ski
> jumpers have been pushing for years to be allowed to compete. They even
> took it to court for the Vancouver, arguing that it violated the Charter
> of Rights and Freedoms because it was discriminatory. The IOC's
> argument against a women's event is that there just aren't enough women
> ski jumpers to make it a true competition. If you only have a couple
> women in each of a couple countries all they have to do to make it to
> the Olympics is to show up, and then the odds are that they will win a
> medal.

I just saw a picture from 1967 where a woman dared to run in the
Boston marathon and one of the organizer was attacking her as she
was running. I don't know if he was trying to tear off her number
or what. Imagine that, women weren't allowed to run in marathons.
Women not allowed to run, therefore there weren't female marathoners.

I bet there will be a lot more women ski jumping if they have a chance
to go to the Olympics.

nancy