Female ski jumpers lose bid to have Women’s Ski Jumping added to the Olympics

I don’t know how many people are aware, but the upcoming 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver currently does NOT have any Women’s Ski Jumping events (there are 3 for men), even though there are many professional women who compete in this sport.  A group of women with international backing tried to sue the Vancouver olympics to have the sport added due to the sexism of this but the court rejected their lawsuit.  See here.

Even though I understand the judge’s ruling (basically that the International Olympic Committee, the IOC, is not bound the Canadian Charter and thus the court has no jurisdiction to order them to alter the line-up of events), I’m terribly disappointed by this.  I still think the suit was worthwhile because it drew so much attention to the issue.  I’m really hoping the IOC will take notice and add the events, if not to Vancouver then to the next Olympics. 

I am glad however that the judge acknowledged the sexism and agreed that the events should be added, she just doesn’t have the authority to order the change.

I personally don’t think there should be ANY event for which only one sex competes in (unless perhaps there was simply no competitors for a specific event from a specific gender, but I’m not aware of any such event).

What do you guys think?  Is there anything we can do?

Btw this is my first post so I hope I did ok…