But sliding down a ramp with boards strapped to your feet is a Canadian human right – or so some contend. Under the sub-heading of “don’t tease us like this!”
A victory for women’s ski jumpers who are trying to get into the 2010 Olympics could spell the end of the Games in Canada, warned a lawyer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee.
“It is very unlikely the Games would be held in Canada again in the foreseeable future” if VANOC departed from its signed contract with the International Olympic Committee, said George Macintosh in a written argument.
VANOC’s lawyers on Wednesday opened their rebuttal argument to a lawsuit by 15 elite women athletes who say VANOC is in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But here’s the best part !
VANOC also acknowledged Wednesday the committee’s financial and logistical help to the female ski jumpers who are suing them.
That’ll teach ’em.
This can’t be a gender equality problem – the modern IOC has a history of allowing fake female sports (along with fake females) into the games. Who’s advising these girls, anyway? Why go the lawsuit route when the path to Olympic inclusion is as clear and bright as a patch of sunny beach sand?
The ONE and ONLY reason the IOC is keeping the women’s ski jumping off the menu is that there are NO competitors for the Canadian team. No matter what other excuses are offered.
Although I’m sure that the Men’s Ski Jumpers would be pretty well humiliated should a woman beat any of there performances.
BTW – women’s winter events are pretty good.
For example: Women’s Alpine Skiing …. any one of them would kick your ass and leave you crumpled in a pile of vomit … unless you happen to be a world class skier… as they are.
Cross country skiing… ditto. Biathalon … ski … shoot …. ski … shoot … ski! Yeah .. shoot.
Freestyle ski events… Ballet!yes that’s stupid.
BUT … Moguls! And especially the Aerial competition.
Now…wasn’t one of the IOC’s arguments against the women ski jumping that they weren’t able to do it safely?
And yet there they are hucking inverted triple twists 40 feet up.
Now the matter of the activist lawyers suing themselves …. that’s like an episode of Boston Legal. Perhaps we HAVE discovered a new Canadian Sport?
The media circus AKA the OLYMPIC GAMES,…well suck.
Ben Johnson..nuff said.
I have a belief that I am the world’s greatest athlete in a sport I can duffism, the rules are complex, the equipment is strange and I’m really the only true participant, it may looks like a combination of beer drinking, TV watching, Xbox playing and surfing the internet but it is just such a complex sport most don’t get it. I think my sport should be at the Olympics and I think I should be supported for my dreams. Questioning the vailidty of my sport is unconstitutional, questioning my desire is unconstitutional, not supporting me means you don’t support the constitution, therefor I have the support of all constitution supporting Canadians…
I feel that womens hockey should be removed from the oylimpics as well. Is there any doubt that it will be a US / Canada final in 2010? Why have a round robin and elimination round? And I’m willing to wager there are dozens Jr and Midget teams withing 50 km’s of Vancouver that would win that gold if given a chance.
I think we should do away with mens / womens sports. We are all equal after all, in a gender blind evaluation would any nation really bring any women to most events? Oh did I say something feminists don’t want to here, that the top percentile men are heads and shoulders (literally) above the top percentile women?
I don’t know what the women ski jumpers hope to accomplish by their legal action. The IOC is unlikely to cave in to a court decision against it in Canada. Frankly I think it would be more likely to pick up its ball (or puck) and go home. Or the Olympics might be forced to move somewhere else (not that I care, it’s only the second-rate winter variety, although I do like the summer games, which give me a chance to do my quadrennial duty and watch the CBC).
The IOC is a private organization and should be able to make up whatever rules it wants with regard to which sports are included and who will be allowed to perform. However, I cannot think of a good reason to include one sex and not the other, so I would encourage the IOC to include women’s ski jumping.
The most ludicrous Supreme Court of Canada decisions of all (and there have been many) have been those dealing with so-called “discrimination law”.
A couple of asides: (1) Biathlon is not a real sport. (2) I’m totally sick of the Rogers ads for the Olympics already, and there’s almost a year to go.
The Olympics are the UN of sports. Get rid of them both.
Yup that’s what you get when the IOC is a bunch of lecherous, dirty old Dutchmen….