Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck, Bischofshofen, four jumps, four jumps, only men who plunge down the glowing snow-covered giant ramp into the depths.

This is the Four Hills Tournament.

The highlight of the season.

An event in four places where women have only been able to watch.

The idea of ​​offering jumping for women there is not new.

On Wednesday, ski jumper Selina Freitag demanded: "The Four Hills Tournament belongs where the boys are already jumping."

Yes, it belongs there. It is time for women to occupy these very prestigious places. Only those who go to the places can change them. Historically, men have a head start, both in summer and in winter. It was not until 2009 that the first women jumped large hills in the competition, followed by the mixed competition in ski jumping in 2013. Since 2019 the women can also jump in the team. And even the last men's bastion in the winter wonderland has fallen: At the end of 2020, the women had their World Cup premiere in the Nordic Combined, and in 2021 there will be World Cup medals for them.

High time to give up the last anachronism.

Yes, women's sport is economically weaker than men's sport.

But how is that supposed to change when women practice their sport on the side squares, side entrenchments, in side buildings?

How are they supposed to win the race in which they had to start much later anyway?

Speaking of races: next year there will be another Tour de France for women after a twelve-year break.

It starts on the final day of the men's tour in Paris.

On wheels in the eye of society

There is great hope that women’s cycling will experience a boom as a result.

Now one could ask: why go there?

Why not organize your own Tour Féminin?

The answer: The Tour de France guarantees the attention that women’s sport urgently needs.

It carries women on wheels right into the eyes of society.

Then changing the locations can be the next step. A look at tennis shows that. In the days of Billie Jean King, in the early sixties, women played in the worst places at the French Open - they don't have to be seen. King's demands: more visibility, more money. She later founded the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association. In doing so, she created her own organization for female tennis players. Today tennis is doing very well compared to other sports. Whoever demands wins.

Whether in two or three years in the Four Hills Tournament, next year in the Tour de France - that women are there is important.

But women's sport shouldn't just be the cheerleading break for men's sport.

It should be seen for exactly what it is: exciting entertainment, regardless of whether men and women plunge down into the depths or torment themselves up the mountain.

And who knows, maybe at some point women will create their own event, the great days in Oberhof, with jumping on seven different hills.

And then men knock and ask: Can I jump with you?