VANCOUVER - Female ski jumpers and the 2010 Winter Olympic organizing committee are preparing to head back to court over the sport's place at the upcoming Vancouver Games.
With just three months to go until the Olympics, 14 jumpers are appealing a lower court's conclusion that Vancouver organizers don't control whether they can compete at the Games.
The jumpers argue that organizers are subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and their failure to include women's ski jumping at the Games violates their right against discrimination.
But a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled in July that the power to include sports at the Games rests solely with the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC rejected women's ski jumping for the 2010 Games in 2006, arguing the sport had not yet met the criteria to be included.
The appeal will be heard over two days by a panel of judges at the B.C. Court of Appeal in Vancouver.
