{"id":62,"date":"2021-11-24T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.journalism.ryerson.ca\/madisonkelly\/?p=62"},"modified":"2021-12-06T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:49:20","slug":"women-still-struggle-for-representation-in-the-2022-winter-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/madisonkelly\/2021\/11\/24\/women-still-struggle-for-representation-in-the-2022-winter-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Still Struggle For Representation In The 2022 Winter Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In light of the Winter Olympics approaching, it would be a great time to discuss how women’s sports are treated in the Olympics compared to men.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although women have come a long way since the 1924 Olympics in terms of representation, they still do not account for 50 per cent of the participants almost a century later. According to Statista<\/a>, in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, women only made up for 41 per cent of the total number of athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA’s Mirai Nagasu competes in the women’s single skating free skating of the figure skating event during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 23, 2018. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Brakewoman Aja Evans posing for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Advertisement (USOC\/NBC Olympics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Chloe Kim celebrates her gold medal at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics (Jorge Silva\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Reasons Why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And there isn\u2019t just a single reason for this, one example being that the number of events for women to participate in is less than men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take women\u2019s ski jumping, for instance; women only get to participate in one event for ski jumping compared to men who get three events, including the normal hill, large hill, and large hill team event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


The same goes for bobsledding, where the men have two events (two men and four men), and the women-only have one (two men).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gold Medallist, Canada-1 two-woman bobsleigh pilot Kaillie Humphries (2nd L) and brakewoman Heather Moyse (C) celebrate with Silver Medallist, US-1 two-woman bobsleigh pilot Elana Meyers (L) and brakewoman Lauryn Williams (3rd L) and Bronze Medallist US-2 two-woman bobsleigh pilot Jamie Greubel (R) and brakewoman Aja Evans at the Women’s Bobsleigh Flower Ceremony at the Sliding Center Sanki during the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 19, 2014L (JOHN MACDOUGALL\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention that there are still countries where women are not allowed to participate in events at all. Despite Brunei, Qatar and Saudi Arabia sending female athletes to the 2012 London Summer Olympics, they have yet to send a woman to the Winter Olympic Games, according to The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Experience <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019 the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic games; I\u2019m sitting in my grade eight class watching both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s snowboarding slopestyle competitions take place. Everyone is in awe of Mark McMorris coming back from a rough start and still winning bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left to right: Enni Rukajarvi \u2013 silver, Jamie Anderson \u2013 gold, Jenny Jones \u2013 bronze (Photo by Nick Atkins<\/em>) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mark McMorris holding his bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic games (Via Yahoo Sports) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

After the events concluded, one of the boys in my class said, \u201chow is the women\u2019s event even a sport? They don\u2019t even compare to the men,\u201d to which my male teacher laughed in agreeance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Female athletes have made significant strides for equal representation within the Olympics, yet, these facts show there is still a lot of work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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