Is This the Most Important Moment for Women in the Olympic Games?
SHAPE.COM—The poignant Visa commercial showing U.S. Olympic ski jumper Sarah Hendrickson taking flight to the crackling soundtrack of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart’s powerful words recorded in 1937 sums up the gravity of this historic moment. Today in Sochi, women competed in ski jumping for the first time at an Olympic level (the men’s sport has been part of the Winter Olympics since the inaugural Games in 1924).
