The Winter Olympics -Are You Going to Watch It?-

[Dragonpuff]

Yeah, good 'ol manga. There was a 'sport' craze awhile ago, and now there is at least one manga for most sports. Only some are really popular though.
So Mania, I'm looking around the Wikipedia site (cause now you got me curious), and I can't find any reasons given as to why women can't compete in Ski-jumping events. Enlighten me? Please? /beg

[Mania]

Heh! The only thing I have is a reference to a quote I saw on Salon.com. Let me dig it up. ... Here we go:

Except from "Lady ski jumpers' ovaries are just fine, thanks":

Unofficially, one of the pervasive rumors floating around about the sport is that ski jumping could potentially damage female fertility -- a contention that stems from a comment by International Ski Federation president and IOC member Gian-Franco Kasper in a 2005 NPR interview that ski jumping "seems to not be appropriate for the ladies from a medical point of view." (As Professor Ruth Gregory, the brains behind a lady ski jumping documentary "Jump Like a Girl" points out, the same argument was once used to exclude women from marathon running.)

[Dragonpuff]

Really? Seriously? That's a reason they use? Honestly? For real?... *continues*
*mind is boggled*

[Zangor]

what are these sports you speak of? they sound scary!

[Saturo]

Sports are when people exercise...

*Shudders*