As Abby Ringquist watched Team USA's all-male ski jumping squad fly through the air at the 2006 Winter Olympics, she asked herself: Why don't girls get to do that? Fast forward 12 years, and the ...

Team USA says 19-year-old American ski jumper Casey Larson has become the 100,000th man to compete at the Olympics. Historian Bill Mallon calculated that Larson reached the milestone by being the 16th ...

High jumpers and pole vaulters in elite men’s competitions take more risks than their female counterparts and generally profit from the strategy, according to a study. Research published in the ...

On Friday, David Epstein had a thoughtful piece in the Washington Post about the extent to which sex differences matter in sports—and especially in the Olympics, where female athletes have struggled ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) - Female ski jumpers have sued the Vancouver organizing committee for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, claiming that gender discrimination unlawfully excludes them from competing.