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Adding video to channels (Femme) - requested by peggedbea.

Its just a reflection of the dip shits that control these events.

Sport itself is retarded in the first place to have preference over 1 sport and another is stupid.
If your going to have a big celebration of sporting and games , then it should include everything from tidily winks to sky diving.

The "danger" thing is obvious nonsense - that's not to say it isn't dangerous, but I don't see any reason it would be more dangerous for women.

I think womens' ski jumping is probably viable - but I don't think they're being unreasonable in some of the requirements. For example, the video says there "will be" a world championship in 2009, while the guy says there needs to have been a certain number of world championships. I can see this requirement being waived for a new sport that seems to be on its way up - but there's no reason to waive it for womens' ski jumping. The facilities have been around forever, so there's no reason there couldn't have been world championships and such long ago if there was sufficient interest. If they have world championships for a few years, I imagine their Olympic bid could go better later - but to do that they'll need to get some interest going.

And, yes, I do think there should be strong evidence of interest before its included. If we're just going to go with "there must be gender parity" then I look forward to mens' rhythmic gymnastics. Do you think there's never been a guy who wants to do rhythmic gymnastics? I'm sure there has been, but it's not at a high enough level to justify inclusion at the Olympics and I think the standards for this have probably served them well.

That said, in general I think they should be shrinking the number of Olympic events in the category of "things few people are interested in, but that we've always just sort of had in there". Screw tradition, and screw the 100 kinds of luge, bobsled and skulls, 2400 varieties of swimming and 900 weight categories of weight lifting. I think they should trim this back, leaving a shorter schedule of events where each medal has more meaning.

3-Words: Let Them Skate!

... neither is there any men's synchronized swimming. You don't see men trying to get into that, either, now do you?