While Nordic combined is contested separately from ski jumping, given that Nordic combined includes both ski jumping and cross-country skiing, it was assumed that a women’s Nordic combined event would be added after women’s ski jumping debuted in 2014. There’s also the fact that women still don’t compete in Nordic combined, the only Olympic sport – summer or winter – that is only for men. “They were trying to come up with ways that accentuated our hips and our curves a little bit more,” Hendrickson told NPR.įIS removed the requirements in 2020, reportedly saying the change made it easier to sew and alter the suits. Olympic ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson believes it was all aesthetic. The International Ski Federation (FIS) had claimed the panels were for fit, but two-time U.S. “There, the girls showed what many of us have said for a long time, that they will show it when they get the opportunity.” MORE WINTER OLYMPICS COVERAGE: For ski jumper Ursa Bogataj, first major win is Olympic goldĪn NPR report on Thursday details other inequities women ski jumpers face, including taking home approximately 75-percent less prize money than men and a weird, now-defunct requirement that made women include additional hip panels in their ski suits. “It will be a difficult job for those who will argue against the girls jumping on all the slopes after what happened in Willingen,” he said. Norway’s team manager Clas Brede Brathen pointed out that men and women competed on the same large hill at a World Cup in Willingen, Germany, just last weekend. “There is no doubt that they are ready for a large hill in the Olympic program,” said fellow jumper Halvor Egner Granerud, according to EuroSport. Norwegian jumper Silje Opseth, 22, said recently she was envious of the men getting to use “the big, beautiful hill” in Beijing, and on Thursday several Norway team members shared their support. did not initially qualify a single spot in the women’s ski jumping competition for 2022. After qualifying three women for both the 20 Games (the max quota is four), the U.S. She was originally sixth on the alternate list for Beijing but made it in after other countries passed on using some quota spots. The 21-year-old Hoffman personally felt the crunch of the numbers. There’s also a men’s team event where 12 countries compete with four-man teams (and another 12 men take home Olympic medals). Additionally, the men have an individual large hill competition (another shot at gold for 65 men) – despite the fact that women compete on the large hill on the World Cup and at Nordic Skiing World Championships. There’s no reason to have discriminations between the two.”Ĭhief among those discrepancies is the 40 spots allowed for for the women’s individual normal hill event compared to 65 for the men’s. There are so many athletes that are super capable. “The women’s side of the sport has been showing that our level and our competitiveness is there. “It’s eight years later let’s step some stuff up and get some more equality,” American ski jumper Anna Hoffmann recently told the Wisconsin State Journal. A new mixed team competition will expand opportunities for women ski jumpers to compete at the Winter Olympics, but eight years after the women’s event was added, athletes are still scratching their heads over the vast disparities that exist between the women’s and men’s programs.
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