November 28, 2006

Ski Cross, In. Women's Ski Jump, Not Yet.: Contrary to many expectations, the IOC Executive declined to add ski jumping events for women to the 2010 Winter Olympic program. There's lots of other news for Olympic junkies in this article.

posted by Amateur to other at 07:32 PM - 3 comments

Women's Ski Jump, Not Yet. The FIS owns this one. All the way. Bastards.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:10 PM on November 28, 2006

I was all ready to blame the IOC for this, but after reading the article, yeah, Miz Bat is right. If they haven't been chuffed to conduct an actual world championships in women's ski jumping yet (let alone some kind of even semi-pro exhibition, and don't tell me that couldn't happen), then the IOC can't create one out of thin air. There are two slots for new sports in the Summer games, though, eh? Skee Ball and Rock Paper Scissors, your time is now!

posted by chicobangs at 11:33 AM on November 29, 2006

At least two, chico -- the delegates may decide to cut deeper at the next opportunity. The bit about the summer sports is a bit puzzling, actually, because adding new sports will require a change to the Olympic Charter at some point -- and that does take a two-thirds majority vote.

posted by Amateur at 02:46 PM on November 30, 2006

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