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Watch them fly – Nordic World Ski Championships
by Pretty Tough
posted February 23, 2011 at 3:16pm

The Nordic World Ski Championships begin this week in Oslo, Norway. American Lindsey Van will be defending her title on Friday, Feb. 25. Forty-three women from 15 countries are on the start list and by all accounts they’re ready to put on a great show...more

Lindsey Van third, Jessicaa Jerome gets two fourths in Hinterzarten
by anngaff
posted January 12, 2011 at 10:21pm

Press release courtesy of Women's Ski Jumping USA HINTERZARTEN, Germany – Jessica Jerome prolonged her streak of top-five finishes, and Lindsey Van nabbed another third place in Continental Cup competition Wednesday in Hinterzarten, Germany, amid p...more

17-year-old ski jumper dies, cause uncertain
by anngaff
posted January 9, 2011 at 12:55am

Release courtesy of Women's Ski Jumping USA www.wsjusa.com Two members of the Visa Women’s Ski Jumping Team finished in the top five Saturday in a Continental Cup event that was overshadowed by the tragic and unexpected death of a young I...more

Bringing Changes to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
by nerdbarry
posted November 30, 2010 at 12:38pm

The United States Olympic Committee USOC is not only looking to further the athletic accomplishments but make sustainable environmental changes to the Winter Games. And with the bid for the 2022 games being award in 2015, they must move fast with their ef...more

Lindsey Van: "I get mad because a little girl like you couldn't go out and ski jump with the boys"
by anngaff
posted November 15, 2010 at 5:27pm

The scene: Bill Kerig, director of Ready to Fly, sits down to interview World Ski Jumping Champion Lindsey Van in order to promote fundraising for the documentary he is producing. His young daughter Grace comes in and asks what they're doing. Grace: "Can...more

Jessica Jerome to be inducted into Ski Jumping Hall of Fame
by anngaff
posted November 8, 2010 at 9:31am

U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team veteran Jessica Jerome and legendary women’s coach Larry Stone will be inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame (ASJHF) on Dec. 5, 2010. This is the second year in a row that ASJHF will ...more

Women's Ski Jumpers Feeling Optimistic about Inclusion in 2014 Olympics. Should they?
by anngaff
posted October 25, 2010 at 4:51pm

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that they will delay the final decision on whether to add several new events, including women's ski jumping, to the Olympic program for Sochi 2014. The IOC board has further announced that they ha...more

Women’s sumo and women’s ski jump: striving to be recognized by the IOC.
by Same Size Balls
posted October 21, 2010 at 2:25pm

Women’s ski jump and women’s sumo are both struggling to gain acceptance from the International Olympic Committee. The women’s ski jump battle had dead-panned for the time being, but women’s sumo is starting to grow, while seemingly smoothly break...more

Sumo For Girls...
by RunLikeAGirl
posted October 20, 2010 at 3:36pm

What do women ski jumpers and women sumo wrestlers have in common?...more

Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show #1: Special Guest Deedee Corradini, president of Women's Ski Jumping USA
by anngaff
posted October 17, 2010 at 4:29pm

Sunday afternoon, MarQ Piocos and l hosted the inaugural Women Talk Sports weekly radio show. Our special guest was Deedee Corradini, president of Women's Ski Jumping USA. Corradini has led an 8-year campaign to get women's ski jumping added to the Olymp...more

Inclusion, opportunity and other fun things
by Byline to Finish Line
posted October 14, 2010 at 11:59am

It seems like a curious time to be a female athlete. In the world of basketball, we have a proposal to lower the rim. In the world of winter outdoor sports, we have women ski jumpers fighting for inclusion in the Olympic Games while the Nissan Freeride W...more

“Join the Journey NYC” for equality in sport on Oct. 21
by anngaff
posted September 22, 2010 at 1:20pm

American Lindsey Van has launched off ski jumps more than 20,000 times — often going the length of two football fields. In 2009, she became the first women’s world champion of ski jumping. But she didn’t compete in the Olympic Winter Gam...more

Ski Jumping Scandal?
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 19, 2010 at 3:26pm

Ski jumping is one of many sports that I only see every four years when it’s featured in the Olympics. Despite pretty much forgetting that it exists in the interim, unless I happen to play it on the Wii Fit, I’m always enthralled by it and it’s on...more

Fly like an Eagle
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 16, 2010 at 6:21pm

Eddie Edwards competed in the 1988 Olympics as a ski jumper from Great Britain. In spite of his popularity, Eddie’s last place performance on both hills resulted in the IOC implementing what is known as the “Eddie the Eagle rule.” What does this...more

Olympics: Opportunity denied
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 27, 2010 at 1:15pm

It looked like an incredible difficult sport to excel in. Tedious, in fact. There definitely was something alluring about the lift to the top, the walk up up the stairs, the poise at start and the satisfying “woosh” that sounded with the gain in spe...more

Sports Illustrated champions women's ski jumping
by After Atalanta
posted January 27, 2010 at 11:35am

It's a little late, of course and one has to wonder where all the sympathy from the mainstream, American-based media was when these women were in the midst of their battle with the IOC and, by default, VANOC. The righteous indignation is nice but just two...more

On the eve of the Olympics let's remember...
by After Atalanta
posted January 24, 2010 at 7:01pm

...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 wa...more

Victories and Failures in Women's Sports in 2009, or #FTW and #FAIL (Hot or Not for us old-timers)
by anngaff
posted December 31, 2009 at 4:18pm

I was going to make a Hot or Not in 2009 list for women's sports but then realized that "Hot or Not" is so 1990's when people still read magazines (the Hot or Not list was in Cosmo, no? I mean, I wouldn't know because a good feminist doesn't read Cosmo, I...more

A few newsy things
by After Atalanta
posted December 29, 2009 at 1:30pm

On December 22 the Canadian Supreme Court refused to hear the case of female ski jumpers trying to get into the 2010 Olympics. This was the last ditch effort of the group which has pursued legal means and made appeals to the IOC, including a letter to Pre...more

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