Testicles can take it, ovaries can't.

[Sayj]

okay, so I agree with this guy.

http://komo4.com/stories/41776.htm

Women have died in combat while serving our country. They have died while flying into space. And they aren't allowed to fly off the side of a mountain during a competition.

just dumb thinking

[Dape]

"The Olympic committee, on the other hand, seems to lack the fortitude to get past its petty point of view and give women what they deserve: The chance to compete. "

The Olympic's are the most corupt sports events ever. If it is judged, it is corput. That's why I only watch the events with out judges. Women's figure skating excluded.....who doesn't like to watch those girls skate backwards, :)

[Inez]

That just makes me mad that the Olympics won't let women compete in that event. They do everything else in the Olympics right? Or am I mistaken on that? Heck women can even pee standing up if they wanted to! They're just afraid the women would beat the men...;) .

[Figtoria]

One Olympic official says that it's just not "appropriate" for "ladies" to be doing that -- from a medical point of view.


There's no way that article is from 2006?

Please. Tell me it's not.

It's a joke right?

[Morety]

I'd have to think women will outdistance their male counterparts in the jumping. I don't have a problem with that, and I don't see why the Olympic committee should either.

The article doesn't state "why" women aren't allowed by the committee. I'm very curious to hear the committee's official response, as opposed to "their petty views won't allow..." It's hard to poke holes into the committee's stance when it's not made clear by the reporter. All he did was toss rhetoric at us.

That being said, I can't possibly think of a reason women can't compete in the jumping.

[Grundy]

Mamillian protuberances or "Boobs" and "junk in the trunk" create a natural areodynamic synergy that allow the female form to take advantage of its own drag.

[Bedpost]

I mean come on how can you think women should compete in ski Jumping? that's just silly to think they could compete with guys in that.

Ok enough being stupid... I guess I never really thought about it why there aren't women ski jumpers? that's kinda dumb that there aren't. I think they are probably worried that some 89 pound woman is going to come and break all the records or something?

[Post]

Not that I'm stating that women should be barred from the event (because I disagree with that), but what's the argument that women should be separated from the men at all, then? Across the board, even? Why isn't there "ski jumping", and not "men's ski jumping" + "women's ski jumping"?

[Bedpost]

well if there was separate events that would be different. However, there isn't any womens ski jumping for them to go to. Since it's not labeled Mens ski jumping why shouldn't anyone who is good enough be able to compete?

[Post]

But what I'm saying is, why not meld all events?

[MickeyFinn]

I agree with Hep on this point. If you want to be a firefighter as a woman you have to pass the same physical tests as the men, the olympics should be the same way.

[Bedpost]

Because most of the sports physical strength allows men to be so much better at things that there wouldn't be any women competing if everything was just one event.

Downhill skiing. There would not be any women skiers because the leg strength that it takes to make the turns at the speed that the men do the women just cannot match.

Speed skating is the same thing...

In sports like Ski jumping though... there is no reason to not have them combined. Or at least have a womens ski jump. heck remove snow board events all together and put in womens ski jump I'd much rather watch that.

[Noleader]

Only reason women are not aloud on the ski jumps is the risk of wardrobe malfunction... Super Bowl 39 all over again!!!

Seriously though I think you have a lot of men that are just scared a woman would own them. Ski Jump only requires making your body streamlined in the air; and women can do that and tend to be smaller then their male counterparts (less wind resistence).

[Allison]

Aren't most of the events segregated by gender, anyway? What's the big deal? Just let them have their own event.

[Noleader]

Still if the women broke records the guys would have brused pride... Guys are funny like that; it is kind of the same reason I would never date a woman that could beat my ass...

[Allison]

:rolly:

[PoxTheSmall]

A league of their own, Olympic style!

[Elvtin]

Your just afraid you would lose in the bedroom, aren'tcha NL

[Post]

"In sports like Ski jumping though... there is no reason to not have them combined."

Isn't that the same reasoning, though? That the men's events are separated from the women's events because a man's physical body makeup is different enough to give them an advantage in that particular sport?

Anyway, I'm just playing devil's advocate. Just make a women's equivalent of the event and be done with it.

[Morety]

All sporting events should be gender separate. Just like voting should also be gender separate. Then throw the women's votes into the garbage where they belong.

[Post]

Haha! Next, there will be environmentalists complaining that they're tossed-away votes are being made into shelters for homeless or something. You can keep men's voting sheets on non-recyclable paper, but Christ, care about the environment! Put women's sheets on recyclable paper!

[Morety]

Bah, they should sign them on beaver pelts.

[Post]

Dry erase boards. Or with Cherios in a bowl of milk.

[spyder913]

Hey Brian my Alphabits are talking to me!

What's it say?

OOooooOOooooo!!

Those are Cheerios!

[cogsliastro]

i saw this report on cnn and was crackin up.where would it affect women to do this???
would they start flappin in the wind or somethin???(sorry,bad analogy)
you know what i think,i think that the women would be better and that would never be allowed with an all men olympic panel.

[Grundy]

With the Formula racing the rookie chick named Danica Patrick who's team is sponsored by Dave Letterman did really well placing fourth in the 2005 running of the Indianapolis 500.

One of the veteran fat men drivers complained that it wasnt fair competition since the overall weight of the car is really important and she weighed about half of most of the men at 100lbs.

http://www.answers.com/topic/danica-patrick

[Boom]

No one should do it.

It's not a sport, its a stunt, like jumping a motorcycle over 20 busses.

I mean yeah, they practice and it takes strength and some conditioning. But it's not a sport. It's a really really dangerous, unsafe, stunt.

Yall remember the opening of Wide World of Sports from the early 80s? That guy wasn't able to walk for a long time. No one should be moving that fast downhill.