ACTION: Women's ski jumping

Ottawa, ON. . . CAAWS, the Canadian Association for the Advancement of
Women and Sport and Physical Activity, has added its name to the growing
number of organizations calling on the International Olympic Committee
to include Women's Ski Jumping in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in
Vancouver.

CAAWS has sent a letter endorsing the resolution approved by the City of
Vancouver to Dr. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC). In the letter, CAAWS Chair Nicole Smith requested that
the IOC revisit its decision to exclude women's ski jumping from the
2010 Games. The IOC will be holding a meeting in Denver, Colorado March
25th -27th, 2009.

“Despite the superb planning of the VANOC team to host these games in
Canada, we feel that it would be a terrible legacy to see these games
excluding the women's ski jumping event,” said CAAWS chair Nicole Smith.
“There is still time to reverse this decision, and to see these Olympic
Games remembered for gender-equity, rather than for this unfortunate
ruling.”

CAAWS has urged all individuals and organizations who receive its
electronic newsletter to follow suit, to sign the petition at
www.wsj2010.com and send a similar letter to
the IOC before April 20th, 2009.