Inaugural Women Talk Sports Radio Show - Sunday at 4pm Pacific

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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 Olympic program. Next week (October 24-26), the International Olympic Committee will meet to decide on the events and disciplines to include in the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. We'll talk to Corradini about why the women should be included and what it will mean for the athletes now and in the future. For more about Corradini, check out her bio below.

More about the women's ski jumpers:

There is a documentary being filmed about the story of their struggle - "A true story about a woman ski jumper who set out to conquer the world and the unlikely family that rallied to make it possible."

Check out the website: http://www.getreadytoflyfilm.com/

They are in need of funding to finish this project. Please donate and spread the word! This is a fantastic story that needs to be told.

Also check out the Women's Ski Jumping USA website: http://www.wsjusa.com/

Also, we discussed:

• Marloes Coenen's win over Sarah Kaufman to take the Strikeforce 135-lb belt last weekend in San Jose.
• ESPN The Body Issue, which came out last week
• FIBA's proposal to lower the rim in women's basketball

If you didn't catch us live, you can listen to the show below and/or download it for iTunes. We will be hosting the show every Sunday afternoon. Feel free to give us your feedback as well as ideas for upcoming show topics and guests.

If you have trouble listening to the podcast above, try this link.

More about Deedee Corradini:

Deedee Corradini, president of Women’s Ski Jumping USA since 2004 and former mayor of Salt Lake City. She is also an officer for the International Women’s Forum and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Urban Studies at The Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University.

As mayor, Corradini was instrumental in bringing the 2002 Winter Olympic Games to Salt Lake City, and spent her eight years in office preparing the city to host the games.

Corradini holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Utah. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, grew up in Lebanon and Syria for 11 years, and then lived on the east coast. Following service on the staffs of two Congressmen in Washington, D.C., she returned to Utah to raise her family.

As President of WSJ USA, she continues her campaign to get women ski jumpers into the Olympic Winter Games.

She lives in Park City with her husband.

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• Basketball, MMA, Olympics, Sports, Media, Podcasts, SportsPLUS, Discrimination/Title IX, Winter Games, Wintersports, Ski Jump, FIBA

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This post is related to the following ongoing stories:

• Lowering the rim
• Women`s Ski Jumping in the Olympics
• Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show