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11 18th, 2009 |
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The legal attempts of the ski jumpers to have their sport included as part of the Vancouver Olympic Games have failed:
“Women ski jumpers have been grounded after a B.C. court denied their appeal but they say they’re fine with men still getting their chance to soar at next year’s Olympics.
The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Friday that VANOC is not in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by staging only men’s ski jumping at the Games. In the women’s original lawsuit, they asked that both sexes be allowed to jump or that the men be grounded as well.”
link to the article by Stig Nielsen for Metro Vancouver
[Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images]
