US Women's Ski Jumping Makes Olympic Debut

Women's ski jumping is set to make its Olympic debut at the Sochi Winter Games in Russia.  It's been a long, hard battle, but the women will finally get to display their talents.   Men have been gliding down the long, steep slippery ramps and into the air above specially sloped landing hills since the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France in 1924.   In recent years, female ski jumpers had waged an ongoing battle to get their sport into the Games. They had...

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