Friday, May 23, 2008

Women ski jumpers file lawsuit for Olympics inclusion

This just in from Shortly after women ski jumpers rallied in Vancouver this winter while the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was in town, it looks like they're now filing suit against the Vancouver organizing committee for the 2010 Olympics.

click here for the rest of it.

Earlier this week, Sarah at Think Girl relayed this report from NYT:

The Starting Line: Where Women Are Still Barred From Olympic Participation.

(When David at Lingamish pigeonholed this blog as being at least about "Skiing naked down the slippery slope of rhetoric and feminishticism," this is what he meant.)

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