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IOC President Jacques Rogge on 2010 Women's Ski Jumping

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Rogge's comments came after a press conference closing the sixth Vancouver Coordination Commission inspection of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter Games.
Although he visited several Vancouver venues and met with civic and provincial politicians, bad weather prevented him from achieving one of his major goals, a tour of the new Whistler Sliding Centre and Whistler Olympic Park. A more complete report of the interview will be carried in Monday's Sun.
Of all the visits by the commission, this one was understated and the 10-member committee raised no significant concerns about how Vanoc is preparing the Games.
But that did not prevent controversy from overshadowing the press conference, where Rogge testily fielded a number of questions about human rights in China and why the IOC won't permit women's ski jumping in 2010.
The IOC has been under a barrage of criticism from the women, media and a number of governments after the committee decided last year not to include the sport in 2010.
Rogge flatly denied that the women ski jumpers are being discriminated against. With only 80 recognized women ski jumpers in the world, he said, allowing them to participate in 2010 would dilute the value of the medals.
"We don't want the medals to be diluted and watered down, that is the bottom line."
Rogge later delivered the same message in a telephone call to Helena Guergis, the federal secretary of state for sport, who had offered her backing to the ski jumpers.
Canadian women ski jumpers launched a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but Rogge denied gender had anything to do with the decision.
"Let me be very clear," he said, appearing irritated at the media's persistent questions. "There is no discrimination whatsoever. The decision of the International Olympic Committee not to include women's ski jumping was on technical grounds, not on gender issues."
Pressed further by reporters, he said women had not proven their case. "I would like to ask you if 80 [competitors] is a significant number. I think not."
On human rights issues in China, he said changes being made there might not come fast enough for some, even with the attention of 25,000 members of the media in Beijing for the August Games.
"It might not be immediate, it might be something that is exactly on the opening day of the Games. But there will be a positive influence of the Games," he said.
Recently, filmmaker Steven Spielberg quit as an artistic consultant for the Beijing ceremonies over human rights concerns.
Rogge said China has already reformed its press freedom laws, but reiterated that it wasn't up to the IOC to put political pressure on the country.
"We are not working in terms of pressure. We are working in bringing to China all the values of the Olympic Games. We are not a political body. Political bodies or states might do pressure, but the International Olympic Committee is a sports organization."
Everybody keeps throwing the word discrimination around too much in regards to the Ski Jumping issue. The IOC has technical requirements that have to be met before inclusion into the games and female ski-jumping has not met that. Why should they be allowed to go in the Olympics if they have not even held a world championships? Read the IOC's side of the issue before throwing out words like that.
Secondly, Canada is paying the costs and hosting and event that is NOT solely for Canadians. They signed a contract to host an event for the IOC, not for themselves. By signing a contract, they are agreeing to host the event by the protocols of the IOC. The Olympics are run by the IOC not the individual nation that hosts them.

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