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Gopher
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 Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: Canadians and Gender Discrimination... |
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All Things Considered, December 29, 2008 � No man or woman has flown farther than American Lindsey Van off the K90 ski jump built for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Van holds the distance record at the K90 hill in Whistler, British Columbia.
But Van and other women contend they are barred from the 2010 games simply because they're women.
Ski jumping is the last Winter Olympics sport closed to women. So Van and nine other women from six countries are suing to get into the 2010 games. They argue that the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games is violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by staging ski jumping competition that excludes women... |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:20 am Post subject: |
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Is this really a Canadian issue, or is it an Olympics issue? The games are being hosted in Canada, so it might come under the jurisdiction of the Charter. But if I understand the article correctly, the rule is laid down by the Olympics themselves.
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Jandar
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like an intelligent topic, the kind that a Canadian would not cower from. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like the girls need to be let in. |
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sharkey
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| strictly an olympic issue, dragging canada or any country into the fray is just absurd |
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