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 ...

The next generation of female ski jumpers may have their chance this spring when the International Ski Federation votes on whether to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Games in Vancouver ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some are teenagers. Others are veterans. But what the U.S. women's ski jumping team has in common is a strong connection to their hometown roots and families who passionately support their Olympic ...

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.

The Canadian government agreed in a 2008 settlement that it would lobby the IOC on behalf of the ski jumpers. Women’s Ski Jumping USA, a group led by former Salt Lake City Mayor Deedee Corradini ...