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The Antedeluvian IOC

Started by Butterfly, March 01, 2010, 05:00:48 PM

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The Antedeluvian IOC
A.E. Brain
By Zoe Brain
01 March, 2010


http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/03/antedeluvian-ioc.html


To give an idea of the medical conservatism - some would say eccentricity - in the IOC: from Time magazine

    In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, FIS president and a member of the IOC, said that he didn't think women should ski jump because the sport "seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."

One little problem with that. The evidence.
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