The tumultuous 140-year history of women’s ski jumping, which finally became an Olympic sport at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, is used in this article as an example of male hegemony and gender discrimination in sports. The arguments of this paper are supported by McDonagh and Pappano’s concept of the “three Is”: female inferiority, injury and immorality. Besides historical insights, a special focus is on the discourse and efforts of the female ski jumpers’ fight for participation in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, when they (unsuccessfully) sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee for gender discrimination. Although women’s ski jumping has become an accepted sport, the struggle for gender equality is not over. Women still have to fight to compete from the highest jumps, especially in ski flying. The story of women’s access to high-level international ski jumping events is an example of collective memory of how female athletes fought for their rights to be included in a certain sport.