I am sure you can find some butch gal who can beat me at any sport. However, I can easily find a guy who can beat her at the same sport...
Posted on 02/16/2026 8:24:51 PM PST by xxqqzz
The International Olympic Committee has boasted that Milano-Cortina 2026 is “the most gender-balanced Olympic Winter Games in history”. But there’s actually one sport women don’t even get to try.
For all the claims about “the highest level of female participation in Winter Games history”, the door is “slammed shut” for women in Nordic combined, said The Independent. The three Olympic events where athletes compete in both ski jumping and cross-country skiing are strictly men-only, despite there being equivalent women’s World Cup and World Championship events.
‘Misogynistic mindset’ Nordic combined has been part of the Winter Olympics since its beginnings in 1924. It requires precision, courage, strength and endurance to follow the “daredevil thrill” of ski jumping with a “physically exhausting cross-country ski race”, said The Associated Press. It makes for a “two-day event unlike any other”.
Cross-country skiing has centuries-old origins in Scandinavian military training, which could be a partial explanation for the “misogynistic mindset” towards Nordic combined, said ABC News. But it’s the combination with ski jumping that seems to be the decisive factor. While women had to wait until 1952 to compete in single-discipline cross-country events at the Winter Olympics, they were barred from ski jumping until the early 2000s. For decades, they were “deemed too fragile to stand up to the rigours of repeatedly hurtling themselves off the side of a mountain”. And it’s only at these 2026 Games that women ski-jumpers will be allowed to jump off the same large hill as the men.
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Olympics? When did this start? I guess nobody cares, I know I don’t!
nobody gives a crap
Women’s sports is like Special Olympics.
Everything is amateurish and in slow motion. The people clapping are like trained seals, hoping to encourage the mentally retarded participants.
“Women’s sports is like Special Olympics.
Everything is amateurish and in slow motion. The people clapping are like trained seals, hoping to encourage the mentally retarded participants.”
I’m laughing so hard I’ve got water running from my eyes. Touche’.
Let us know your score after you do a biathlon and then we’ll compare it to the women’s scores.
I am sure you can find some butch gal who can beat me at any sport. However, I can easily find a guy who can beat her at the same sport...
Women are excluded from something???
Let me rend my clothes and clutch my pearls while I try to muster a care.
Everything is not for everybody. Why is that controversial?
You keep thinking that! LOL
“10m air rifle: The Olympic sport where women outgun men”
...and combined cross country skiing and shooting....
Biathlon, a great event
Yeah. Close targets. Practically weightless ammunition. Zero recoil to contend with. An imaginary sport with no practical value in serious matters like life, death and combat.
But you go, girl. Women can do anything men can do, usually better. Uh huh.
It has practical value regarding the science of shooting - shot setup, breath control, etc.
And why does it have to have “practical value in serious matters like life, death and combat”? Because you say so?
Regarding biathlon shooting - see https://www.realbiathlon.com/blog/index.php/2013/08/27/who-shoots-better-men-or-women/
and “Pistol and Rifle Performance: Gender and Relative Age Effect Analysis” - see https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7068418/
And never said that “Women can do anything men can do, usually better”. You did - and they can’t.
Yes, dear.
I’ll do it in the weight lifting comps. I blow way past all the women gold medalists in every lift and I’m a 50+ yo engineer.
In fact, I’d break women’s world records.
Won’t break the top 10 in state level male amateur comps, mind you, but I’d make an absurdly strong woman.
LOL!
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