“It's because we're women!!!”
No, sweetheart, it's because your sport doesn't count!
But nice try with the legal action and the gender card. That's very Olympic of you.
We're talking ski jumping here, by the way. Olympic women's ski jumping, to be exact.
The organizers of Vancouver 2010 decided women's ski jumping won't be an event at these next Winter Games.
The reason? Because it DOESN'T FRICKING QUALIFY.
All new events have to meet certain criteria to be part of the Olympics. For example, the sport has to have to have held at least two world championship competitions.
Women's ski jumping has held exactly zero world championship competitions. Therefore, it doesn't qualify.
Sounds straightforward enough? Not if a lawyer can get a payday out of it.
Those pioneering ladies of ski jumping have decided it doesn't matter that their sport doesn't meet the criteria. Their event must have been banned because they have boobs.
Straight to the human rights commission they marched – a commission that has exactly zero authority over the I.O.C. – arguing that if men get to ski jump in 2010, they should too!
If not, they want the men's event (which meets the criteria to take place at the Games) to be banned as well. It's that noble “If we don't get to play, we'll ruin it for everyone else” mentality.
Canadian Olympic spirit, proudly on display.
You know, skiing doesn't exactly have the rep of being an everyman's sport. (Sorry, I mean, everyperson). But, God, what a way to show how completely out of touch with the actual spirit of the Games these sympathy-grubbing snowbirds are!
Tell you what, though, ladies. If you're going to the commission to argue equal rights, stop picking and choosing the angles that suit you.
You want to file frivolous equal rights complaints? Go in there and argue for a FULL elimination of gender breakdowns at the Games.
Yeah, that's right. Stand up and fight so that men and women can compete for the same medal in every event. In skiing. In track and field. In hockey. In boxing.
Congratulations, ladies. Now you're equal. And you're almost guaranteed to lose. Nice work.
You know, there are so many awesome female athletes lined up for these Games; women who are inspirational representatives of their country, their sport, and yes, their gender.
So, ski jump chicks? Kindly sit your whining a**es down and stop taking the headlines away from the female participants who actually deserve our attention.
See you in 2014, where you belong...