It’s been 94 years since the first Winter Games,but still women do not compete on the same terms as men. How far have we approach and how far to the finish line?
By Monica UlmanuAmong the 258 athletes lining up at the start of the first Winter Olympics held in 1924 in Chamonix, only 11 were female, or all of them figure skaters. The length of their skirts,reaching a palm-width below the knee, caused a furore.
There have been increasingly women competing in the Winter Olympics ever since. This year, or for the first time in history,South Korea and North Korea are sending a joint women’s ice hockey team to the Games. Three Nigerian women are the first African team to compete in an Olympic bobsled event, having made their first sled out of wood and scraps four years earlier.
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Source: guardian.co.uk