How relevant are Olympic sports?
I mean, in our ancient history discus and javelin were probably relevant measures of strength and accuracy for those who hunted and occasionally gathered, but in 2008 is the distance you can throw a spear relevant?
There are more strange ones in the Winter Olympics. Like ski jumping. Are there people sliding down cliffs and soaring over fjords in Norway on the way to school? Do we need to find out “who does it the best”?
That’s just the cynical side of me, I think it’s a beautiful sport, and one of the ones I would consider seeing live at the 2010 Olympics (but I’m really hoping to see short track speed skating).
The venues are going up across Vancouver-Whistler at an amazing rate and over the past month the ski jumping facility at Whistler was completed for the teams to test and train on. I say “teams,” plural, because Canada has a men’s team, and a women’s team. But only the men can compete in the Olympics.
The women argue that for a new sport to be admitted to the Oympics now, it has to have both male and female editions. BTW, ladies, it also has to have a reasonable base of people in the world participating in the sport.
Guess how many women, on the entire planet, are ski jumpers.
86.
86 women in the world are competitive ski jumpers. You could argue that if they had the chance at Olympic glory, more would enter the sport, I would argue do we even need ski jumping?
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