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Women's ski jumping joins winter Games
Apr 6, 2011, 13:57 GMT
London - Women's ski jumping and five other events will join the Olympics from the 2014 Games in the Russian resort of Sochi, the International Olympics Committee agreed decided Wednesday.
The IOC executive board in London approved women's ski jumping, men's and women's ski halfpipe, a mixed relay event in biathlon and team events in luge and figure skating.
Women's jumping had lost a legal battle to be on the programme at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. The IOC argued in the past that the sport did not have enough top competitors
However IOC officials were said to be impressed by the women's event at the Nordic ski world championships in Oslo early last month.
There is no immediate place in the winter programme for a team Alpine skiing event and slopestyle events in snowboard and freestyle skiing in which competitors perform tricks while going down the mountain.
The IOC wants more time to study the technical aspects of the events but they could still be added to the Sochi programme, officials said.
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