NZskier

I apologise if I’m coming across overly aggressive, in your defense 99% of what you’ve said in this thread has been glowingly positive about Jacinta. But I hope you can see how that one sentence can be interpreted as insulting, ignorant, or worse. It annoyed me enough to make my first ever post. Same with Jacinta’s brother. Hope to see you and Reagan out on the water soon! We’ll make a jumper out of her yet!

According to Return to Baseline there have been less women jump 55 meters (180 feet) than men jump 70 meters (230 feet). So it seems fair to assume jumping 55m as a woman is a roughly equivalent, or perhaps an even more impressive, feat than a man jumping 70m. Jacinta had to compete against almost every single woman in this club, barring only Sheers and Milakova. For comparison, I would guess almost a 1/3 of male 70m jumpers had retired by the time her winning streak started. I would suggest that a more precise use of the English language would be “during a lot of her winning streak, the field was at the highest level it has ever been.” Maybe that’s what you really meant to say?

Happy to explain @Horton It’s the part you purposely didn’t bold above. By calling the women’s jump field thin you are both diminishing Jacinta’s achievements and, even more insulting, you are disparaging a huge group of female athletes who were by any objective measure among the best of all time. Yes, you backtracked your own statement in the following sentence, but why make the baseless and insulting claim in the first place?

If it was Ryan Dodd that had retired this week would you have commented that “during a lot of his winning streak, the men’s jump field was a little thin” on the basis that he was consistently 2-3 meters ahead of the rest of the field on the world ranking list from 2016-2021? I highly doubt it.

That's nonsense @Horton Carroll has been up against more 55 meter (~180 foot) jumpers than any other skier in history over her career - Natty, June, Marion, Alex L, Regina, Poochie, Sasha, Brittany, Hanna