On the eve of the Olympics let’s remember…

…the female ski jumpers who will not be there, of course, because the IOC’s decision to keep ski jumping the only male-only winter sport kept being upheld by varying governing and judicial bodies.
I was thinking yesterday when skiing in Vermont about watching my first (and only admittedly) ski jumping competition in Brattleboro last winter. So I was pleased to come across this article out of Rutland, VT about a local female jumper (who was actually at the competition last year). It chronicle’s the 16-year old’s history in the sport. She was US junior Olympian and, of course, hoping for the inclusion of her sport in the games in Vancouver. But unlike jumpers like Lindsay Van, Vermont native Tara Geraghty-Moats is likely young enough to compete in four years at the next Olympics on Sochi. (This is assuming of course that the IOC has had enough of the negative press and actually includes the sport in 2014.)
Geraghty-Moats actually won’t be in Brattleboro next month because she tore her ACL in the summer during a training jump.