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    O Canada!

    Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:42 PM | By Abigail Pilgrim
    There's a gender drama of Olympic proportions being staged by the Canadian women's ski jumpers team. (The girls also made headlines earlier this year when their chairperson Brent Morrice claimed they could all afford to lose 20 pounds. Too much Tim Horton's, maybe?) Since men's ski jumping is already a recognized Olympic sport, the ladies are demanding that there's no reason to leave girls out in the cold and thus the team is suing the host of the 2010 games, the Vancouver Organizing Committee, to allow them to compete. 

    In the Beijing Olympics, 42 percent of the competitors were women and 58 percent were men. And that number even included softball, which has now been dropped from the Olympic line-up, thanks to a fluke vote where International Olympic Committee members thought they were voting to get rid of baseball.  

    Any thoughts from you XX ladies on whether Olympic policy should require sports be split 50-50 between men or women? Or should other factors come into play, like history and TV ratings? I certainly don't pretend to understand why certain things become Olympic sports. I mean, ping-pong? Seriously? My personal solution in this case would be to balance out the gender line-up and bring women's ski jumping into the arena as a Olympic sport and trade out men's figure skating, which (Scott Hamilton aside) seriously should not be allowed to exist.
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