A woman holds the hill record at the Olympic ski-jumping hill. Yet there is no women's ski-jumping competition. Women ski-jumpers sued, yet even the courts in Canada wouldn't help them out.
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Do the rules of the olympic ski-jumping really require that the jumpers are male? I think only sports events for women require the athletes to be female, but not the other way around.
Posted by: Carsten | February 27, 2010 at 07:31 PM
too many homo sexuals
Posted by: jeremy | February 18, 2010 at 01:58 PM
I guess it's because the spokesman for the olympics is called Dick Pound.
Seriously, that explanation is as good as any.
Posted by: Nik V | February 17, 2010 at 01:31 AM