When Jessica Jerome was granted the honor of testing the Salt Lake City ski jump before the 2002 Olympics, it was the thrill of her young lifetime, a chance to show her skills to family, friends ...

Women's ski jumpers competed for gold in the final round of the individual event on Saturday. Team USA did not place for a medal. The International Ski Federation says the women's side of the ...

As several of the athletes and coaches acknowledged, this is far from the first time women's jumpsuits have been at the center of controversy. "For years, every female ski jumper around the world ...

Carina Vogt, the German ski jumper whose coach admitted there were no expectations of winning the first women's ski jump in Olympic history, collapsed in tears when she saw her name at the top of ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A group of female ski jumpers has written IOC president Jacques Rogge, praising the addition of women's boxing to the Summer Olympics and urging that women's ski ...

However, he doesn’t think being able to ski fly means the work is done. “The big one is pay,” Johnson said. “Women’s ski jumpers receive substantially less than men’s ski jumpers do. Competing on the ...

Male ski jumpers have been involved in the sport since the inaugural Winter Olympics in 1924. The IOC said in 2006 that ski jumping, at the women’s level, had not developed to the point where it ...

Many in the U.S. know the sport for its spectacular failures. But an influx of far-flying young women could change its reputation. By JON MOOALLEM Illustration by TATSURO KIUCHI MARCH 6, 2018 The ...

the last Olympic door closed to women is ski jumping. But American ski jumper Lindsey Van – who set the record on the 90-meter jump when the Olympic venue opened in Vancouver, British Columbia ...

The suits used by the jumpers who were banned from the event ... I think they have destroyed women’s ski jumping,” Germany’s Katharina Althaus said, according to yahoo!sports.