Sentences with phrase «ski jumpers compete»

Van doubts that the IOC will ever let women ski jumpers compete, even though IOC president Jacques Rogge said last week that their chances look good for 2014.

Not exact matches

While Vonn stands to make a killing in endorsements, Van, who won the gold medal at the women's world championships in 2009, holds on to her job as a physical - therapy assistant, blocked from the chance for gold by the International Olympic Committee's senseless refusal to allow women to compete in ski jumping.

For ski jumping, snow can be trucked down to fill in for what has failed to fall, the cross-country skiers can move to higher and colder ground, the bobsledders can perhaps compete on ice from the early morning freeze.

With a dogged determination and endless optimism, Eddie eventually cajoles the washed - up ski jumper turned alcoholic Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman) to become his coach and together they set their sights on qualifying and competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

Women made history at the 2014 Winter Games when they were allowed to compete for the first time in ski jumping.

The headline supporter of the week is Eddie «The Eagle» Edwards who famously competed for Great Britain in the Calgary Olympic Games in Ski Jumping.

In 1993, Disney's Cool Runnings put Olympic bobsledding in the spotlight with its tale of an underdog team from Jamaica that defied the odds to compete on the same track as the world's greatest athletes, and now Eddie the Eagle seems poised to do the same for ski jumping.