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In my house I’m the spider killer and my boys who run away.</p>
<p>^^^In our house we are all equal opportunity spider killers.</p>
<p>I have no problem handling a snake if I know it’s not poisonous; insects, while gross, I can handle (though I do admit that in college, while living in roach city off campus, I did wake up screaming hysterically one night when I felt a huge cockroach begin to crawl around on my ear). Mice make me a little uncomfortable, but a rat inside the house will elicit the little girl screaming. So fine. Call me a girl.</p>
<p>After watching female skaters of all types crash to the ice, downhill skiers crash down a mountain, female halfpipers wipe out, female bobsledders eject and slide down the course, or complete the course upside down sliding on their helmets, what could there possibly be about ski jumping that would cause a danger particular to women?</p>
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And WE are equal opportunity “stink bug” killers in our house. In a tissue, in the toilet, wallah!</p>
<p>Back to our regular program.
I agree that the media is trying to stir up trouble with Vonn and Mancuso.
And I think females should be allowed to jump.
And I can’t wait to watch Apolo tonight!</p>
<p>One ski jumper a competition does not make. They won’t make it a women’s sport until they can prove there is enough of an international base. Look at softball and now women’s hockey. Softball is gone because of a lack of competition and women’s hockey is in danger.</p>
<p>Should they allow one woman to compete against men? hmmmm. food for thought. might open a can of worms.</p>
<p>No one cares about the Mancuso/Vonn fiasco? good. </p>
<p>3 pm USA vs Finland, Men’s hockey semi-final!</p>
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<p>I agree. Mancuso had the right to be upset when her run was stopped, no matter who caused it and no matter what the reason. The Koreans had the right to be upset when they were DQ’d, and the Dutch speed skater had the right to be upset when his coach screwed up. Heck, Plushenko even had the right to be upset in the heat of the moment. Mature people who are good sports (probably all of the above except Plushenko) are able to put on a brave face or at least neutral face after a while, but they are humans. They should be allowed to have human reactions when things don’t go their way.</p>
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Is there any reason why it’d need to be segregated? Ski jumping isn’t about base physical strength but more about form. The weight and height might be a factor but they already need to contend with this in the variances of those factors in men. </p>
<p>I think we need some olympic sports that aren’t segregated by gender when not warranted.</p>
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<p>Maybe because when men starve themselves they get down to about 125 lbs and when women starve themselves they get down to under 100 lbs, so the guys would end up having heart attacks or other organ failure trying to get their weight down to the women’s level.</p>
<p>^^ But with ski jumping it seems that a higher weight might be an advantage yet the men already have a variance but I haven’t checked it out. Form also has a factor as well but I don’t know the importance of one over the other.</p>
<p>“Is there any reason why it’d need to be segregated? Ski jumping isn’t about base physical strength but more about form. The weight and height might be a factor but they already need to contend with this in the variances of those factors in men.” </p>
<p>Ok, Toneranger, it’s all teed up for you real nice. Come give it one of those girly swings of yours.</p>
<p>By the way, can we agree that car racing and horse racing are NOT sports because female jockeys and car racers compete on even terms with men? Also still waiting to hear why female curlers (and bowlers, archers, pistol shooters, and spider killers for that matter) can’t compete with males.</p>
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<p>Earlier on this thread, someone posted a link to an article about ski jumping. It said that when they jumped with their skis parallel, the heavier guys did better. But once they started crossing their skis, the lighter guys did better, so there are a lot of very thin guys competing.</p>
<p>schmaltz…yeah in honor of the game starting at 3, I’d like to swing hard and hit a puck your way…in a strategic place of course. Enough said. I wish there was a way to block posts on cc…kind of like you do on facebook. </p>
<p>So lighter is better for ski jumpers. Neat. Still should keep it separate but the ladies should be given a shot.</p>
<p>…“By the way, can we agree that car racing and horse racing are NOT sports because female jockeys and car racers compete on even terms with men?”"</p>
<p>NO, we cannot agree, ok, I cannot not agree with your statement. It’s been proven that the lighter the driver, it is an advantage to running faster…less drag. The smaller, petite women have to work on their upper-body strength to run the heavier stock cars.</p>
<p>[Danica</a> Patrick criticizes new IRL weight rule - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/irl/2008-03-24-patrick-irl-rule-change_N.htm]Danica”>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/irl/2008-03-24-patrick-irl-rule-change_N.htm)</p>
<p>i think asada was simply unhappy with her performance. no one was expecting her to upset kim, but she didn’t skate totally clean. While she did look unhappy with the silver, I don’t think a former world champ (who was even hotter than yuna when she won Worlds) would be completely satisfied with second place. She was and will always be skating for gold, as Kim did. I think Yuna would have been a lot more crushed than Mao is now had Asada pulled a miraculous upset last night.</p>
<p>WOW. Amazing score in US vs. Finland with 6:08 remaining in first period. I won’t say more since people don’t like spoilers, but you can find it on NBC right now.</p>
<p>Toneranger, you WOULD pick a big, easy target. The first person who suggests they do a gender identity exam on Finland’s hockey team is going to have to answer to Toneranger and her rolling pin.</p>
<p>Rough crowd.</p>
<p>^^not anymore. Love that ignore function…lol (learn something new every day). </p>
<p>The US hockey team is amazing. We have a friend who is there, watching his cousin. Sounds like sooo much fun! I’m looking for him in the stands…I bet he has great seats!</p>
<p>^Yeah for the US team. Now lets hope Canada wins tonight and they can play against each other on Sunday!!</p>
<p>I want to watch Canada play hockey this evening, but it’s only being shown here on CNBC, the only NBC channel not free on my satellite. Does anyone know if I can somehow watch it on my computer?</p>