We’ll admit that ski jumping isn’t the sexiest sport. Ski jumpers don’t make it on the covers of glossy magazines and barely anyone outside their sport even knows their names. Lindsey Van? Who’s that? She’s the Olympic Committe’s Athlete of the Month for October 2008, that’s who she is. She holds the record for the longest ski jump ever—for men and women. And she’s one of the athletes pushing for the inclusion of women’s ski jumping, the only sport that doesn’t have a women’s division, in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. “The IOC would have loved for us to go away,” Women’s Ski Jumping president Deedee Corradini told USA Today. “We’ve shown we will not give up. This is going to be a mission right up to the Games.” Today, a date was set—April 20, 2009—for the jumpers to appear in a British Columbia court to have their suit heard. Good luck, jumpers.
Jump Like a Girl
November 18, 2008
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