Login / Register73 percent of Canadians want women's ski jumping in 2010 Olympics, poll finds
Most Canadians believe women’s ski jumping should be included in Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics, a new poll has found.
Seventy-three percent of Canadians support the inclusion of women’s ski jumping as a medal sport in the Games, according to an Angus Reid Public Opinion survey released today (December 18).
Ten percent are opposed to seeing women’s ski jumping in the Games, while 17 percent aren’t sure where they stand on the issue.
On December 1, a group of female ski jumpers asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear its appeal of two B.C. court rulings that found the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn’t apply to the selection of Olympic sports.
Those rulings determined that the International Olympic Committee made the decision to exclude women’s ski jumping from the Games, which will include men’s ski jumping.
Support for women’s ski jumping is highest in Quebec, at 79 percent. British Columbians’ level of support is the same as it is nationally, at 73 percent.
Asked if they would support cancelling the men’s ski jumping competition if the women’s event isn’t added, most Canadians (55 percent) and British Columbians (71 percent) disagreed.
However, 51 percent of Quebeckers said they’d support this move.
In addition, 63 percent of Canadians and 75 percent of British Columbians oppose moving the men’s ski jumping contest out of the country if the women’s competition isn’t included in the Olympics.
Sixty-three percent of Canadians and 62 percent of British Columbians support the female ski jumpers asking the Supreme Court to hear their case.
In a July ruling, B.C. Supreme Court justice Lauri Ann Fenlon called the exclusion of women’s ski jumping “discriminatory” but found it wasn’t a breach of the charter.
In response, the IOC issued a statement denying it had discriminated against female ski jumpers.
The IOC stated its decision was “based on technical issues, without regard to gender”.
Angus Reid polled 1,006 Canadian adults from December 7 to December 8. The results of its on-line survey have a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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Beth
Isn't this "duck speak"?
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
RickW
The only "technical issue" the IOC could come up with was the historical fact that men's ski jumping has been on the books since 1924, while the women's haven't.
That;s stretching it pretty thin, n'est pas?
RickW
They've been told again and again - Canada is the wrong venue. This should be taken up in The Hague, they knew that.
Instead, their stubborn behaviour just wasted a whole bunch of BC and Canadian taxpayer dollars and because of that, I am glad they lost on both counts.
I thought that the liberals and vancouver's mayor were the one's wasting the taxpayers money...makes me wonder if you were supporters of these wasters, because I know I never voted for either of them so I can't help but wonder how they got in to make the decisions that they have been made regarding the owe-lympics?
WOULD LOVE TO SEE WOMAN'S SKI JUMPING IN 2010!
Which is one of several reasons why they were disallowed by VANOC, to keep the medal counts from being padded. If there was even competition globally, it would probably exist. They also need to have competed in 2 world events in order to qualify as an Olympic event, just because that was 'sidled' once it doesn't mean that we need to change the rules, every time the Olympics is held, in order to appease people.
Next thing you know they will be pushed to allow snowball fights for people who are scared of skiing or skating, it would be discriminatory to leave them out otherwise
But of course, if a woman is involved, its sexual discrimination...as always.
There are not enough Olympic level ski jumpers in the world to make a decent competition at the Olympics. There are more people that take part in this sport http://www.eukonkanto.fi/en/ than compete in Womens ski jumping yet that is not an Olympic sport, where's the lawsuit?
Look into an issue before you make judgment.
Heres hoping for Olympic pride and joy for all