“The real reason that Olympic and FIS officials don’t want women jumping could be that … the women may soon be jumping farther than the men… The participation of women would threaten jumping’s virile self-image and dilute the pool of money for prizes and endorsements.”br/br/ – emNick Paumgarten from a New Yorker article, the Ski Gods, printed in the March 15 issue./em
From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.