I do not see a conspiracy against ladies skijumping, I just see a discrimination, which some people call institutional discrimination.
And I do not think that different developments are sufficient enough to reason a different treatment in that way that the gender specific competitions are two complete different sports. The IOC considers in winter sports during the evaluation the number of male and female athletes together, at least this document says so:
http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_669.pdf on page 7. And if this rule still apply the ladies in skijumping receive disadvantages to be treated as a different sport than the men. Actually you are the first person who is able to give me a reason for the treatment as a sport of its own.
Oh, I think I have mistaken South and North Korea with Pyongyang. I am sorry, but actually it seems that the ladies would have the same chances in South Korea according to this
human rights report of the US State Department. If the girls would not have tried to get into the Olympics in South Korea I am not so sure about because there seems to be some amount of money behind the girls. I mean, they get some publicity as they work together with different sorts of media and publish their point very actively in some media. There seem to be in North America a certain support for the girls.
For nordic combined the same rules apply in my eyes but I think there are at least in German Zero Girls who are doing Nordic Combined.
You do not really think that sports stands above or outside law? All Sports Federation are private organisation based on civil law and therefore bound by civil law. I mean this is not a strange civil law we are talking about, it is a human right which is violated. And I think in case of human rights the sport has to comply with the law. If there is no way via arbitration, what is the normal way in sports, the normal legal instruments can be used. There is no legitimation that sports can take away the chance to defend ones human rights just because it is sports and conflict mediation is different than normal. A decision about a human rights violation is not a sportive decision because it does not affect the sport event as such. And, to be honest, some judgements were very good for the sports (
ECJ Bosman judgement). The Judges are humans who are interested in sports as well, so I do not think they are so uneligible to decide about certain areas in sports.
And I personally think that an organisation like the IOC that officially supports women (since 2007, so a very long time ^^) in sports should avoid everything what looks like discrimination. In the case of ladies skijumping the IOC were not succesful with that.
I do not called you a sexist, I do not even think that because there is room to argue about wether there is adiscrimination or not. But some get blind if they think to sniff a discrimination. In this case all circumstances together result in a discrimination, not only one single thing. If the IOC would have argued strictly with the number of the girls on a certain niveau and according to its own rules, there is no problem to decide against a paricipation of ladies in 2010. But it does not do that. For example, the age limit argument is insofar problematic as an age limit according to the
Olympic Charta (43., p. 83) rules in the case if there is an age limit by the Internation Federation of that sport. As there is no age limit for skijumping for men or women, it is not convincing to use that against the participation of ladies in the olympics.