Just watching the women's half pipe, very disappointing, the skill level seems very poor plus they all appear quite happy to fall over and register a poor score, that and the commentators don't know when someone has done a good run or not as they are always surprised by the judges scores. The number that do fall seems very high. It feels wrong somehow that 30 secs of doing half a dozen tricks deserves a gold medal, just me I guess. Update, so the woman from the USA comes down, does one trick and gets the bronze medal.
On another note, from the lady that fought for women's ski jumping, it turns out that the head of the FIS in 2005 [he is still the president] stated that women would not be able to sustain repeated impacts on their legs.
At last I am able to pin down the real reason why women in the Winter Olympics are not allowed to race over the same distances in cross country and biathlon.
To add insult to injury, the FIS Committee consists of 18 members, yep you guessed it, 17 men and one token woman. Am at a loss to understand why this has been allowed to carry on.
Rant over for now.
