Female ski jumpers have written to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge in an effort to win inclusion to the Winter Olympics.
Last month a Canadian court ruled against an appeal over a place at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.
But after women's boxing was cleared for the 2012 Olympics, the ski jumpers have made a personal plea to Rogge.
The women are asking for one event in 2010 and point out that their male counterparts are afforded three.
Ski jumping and Nordic combined - which includes both ski jumping and cross-country skiing - are the only Winter Olympic sports that don't include women.
Part of the reasoning for the IOC's 2006 decision not to allow ski jumping in Vancouver was that the sport had not developed enough to meet the criteria for inclusion at an Olympics.
However the competitors argue that female ski jumping has grown globally and has close to 100 women from 18 countries competing at elite level.
They also highlighted the case of boxing, the inclusion of which means all 26 sports at the Summer Games have female and male competitors, in their appeal to Rogge.
"Your decision has made the Summer Games' programme gender-equal and the outpouring of positive response in the media indicates how 'right' that is for everyone, especially female athletes," the letter states.
"The world would cheer even louder if you took the final step to allow women ski jumpers to compete in the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in 2010."
