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...starkly contrasted with students’ negative attitudes after his notorious ten-citation speech, during which many attendees left. On the other hand, last year’s Class Day speaker, Matt Lauer of The Today Show, was surprisingly enjoyable and enlightening. As such, students should not jump to conclusions, especially not negative ones, before the speaker actually delivers his or her speech...
...world championship - for only two years. The sport didn't have very many high-profile, FIS-sanctioned competitions, but that too may have owed to gender bias. In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, FIS president and a member of the IOC, said he didn't think women should ski jump because the sport "seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view." By the time women's ski jumping was included at a world-championship-level event in 2009, it was too late; Vancouver's Olympic event schedule was already established...
Last year, nearly 100 women competed in FIS-sanctioned ski-jump competitions. There are at least 30 top-tier jumpers from 11 different nations - numbers equivalent to Olympic women's bobsled stats - and by the time the 2014 Olympics roll around, several more world championships will have taken place. But a Vancouver shutout has severely hindered the sport's ability to grow. Following the IOC's announcement, a recession-weary U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association dropped the U.S. women's ski-jump team, saying it could not afford to fund a non-Olympic event in this economy. Athletes have found...
...will the IOC approve women's ski jump for 2014? "We'll have to wait and see," IOC member Dick Pound said in an interview for an MSNBC.com documentary on women's ski jumping, Frozen Out of the Olympics. "If, in the meantime, you're making all kinds of allegations about the IOC and how it's discriminating on the basis of gender," he warned, "the IOC may say, 'Oh yeah, I remember them. They're the ones that embarrassed us and caused us a lot of trouble in Vancouver. Maybe they should wait another four years or eight years...
Women's ski jump will likely be included in the Olympics one day, but for now the women remain on the sidelines. If Van's record at Whistler is surpassed this Olympics, it will be done...