Nancy Young wrote:
> 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

Nope.
We have some here in Austria.
The problem with ski jumping - you need :
(a) a mountain
(b) a ramp

So even over here, there are few men and women who choose that as their
sport.
The mountain is easy, but there are just a limited number of ramps.
Plus : Fewer women seem to be drawn to that discipline.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner