The IOC says, "from a medical point of view" women should not be allowed to jump; also, that there were not enough sanctioned events, or even a women's championship that made the sport high-profile enough to take to the Olympics. In response to these arguments, proponents of the sport's integration into the Olympics say that a WOMAN holds the overall record of ski jumping, and that now there are nearly a hundred women competing in FIS-sanctioned ski competitions-- including a world championship level which was included in 2009.
One quote from the article which really caught my attention made by member of the IOC Dick Pound, directed towards supporters of women's right to be able to jump in the Olympics was "If in the meantime you're making all kinds of allegations about the IOC and how it's discriminating on the basis of gender," he warned, "the IOC may say, 'Oh yeah, I remember them. They're the ones that embarrassed us and caused us a lot of trouble of trouble in Vancouver, maybe they should wait another four years or eight years.'" This quote to me came off as the IOC being very aware of their power in creating the Olympic schedule in which the quote seems to hold over the women striving to compete.
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