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...TIME's 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...year, and has been jumping for the past 19 years. But when the Games kick off on Feb. 12, the 2009 women's ski-jumping world champion will be nowhere in sight. That's because women aren't allowed to ski jump in the Olympics. (See TIME's 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...lack of trying. Female ski jumpers have petitioned to join every Winter Olympics since Nagano in 1998, and each time they have been denied by the International Olympics Committee (IOC). In fact, ski jumping is the only Olympic discipline to remain men-only. (Technically, Nordic combined is also limited to males, but that's because it includes ski jumping.) In 1991 the IOC announced that all future Olympic sports must be open to both genders, but the rule didn't apply to sports that already existed - and as one of the 16 original events in the inaugural Winter Games...
Watch a video of fans stranded in a blizzard en route to the Winter Games...
...world's best athletes bid for gold at the Winter Games in Vancouver over the coming 16 days, we can be sure that every double Axel will be scrutinized and every race timed to one-thousandth of a second. But in a world obsessed with precision, one issue continues to escape neat classification and a simple solution: how to handle sexually ambiguous athletes...