Why is it Ladies' Figure Skating, but Women's everything else in the Olympics? On the NBC site, every sport that I saw that people who weren't men competed in was listed as the Women's _____, with the exception of Ladies' Figure Skating. The website of the International Olympic Committee uses both "Ladies'" and "Women's" to refer the event that Japan's Shizuka Arakawa just won, although it seems that the official English name of the event is the Individual Women's. The only other reference to a "Ladies'" event that I found in my limited search of the IOC site was "There were two golf events in 1900 - one for gentlemen and one for ladies." Is there anything inherently unladylike about something like biathlon? I doubt Uschi Disl or Kati Wilhelm would think so.