The Whiner Olympics

The group that is lavishly paid to oversee the Olympic games, the International Olympic Committee, has decided, for whatever reason, to not allow women's ski jumping on the menu for the next winter Olympics. That's their job, to make this sort of decision. And Lord knows they do it rarely. The women ski-jumpers, unfortunately, don't agree with the decision, and don't agree with the IOC's right to make the decision. Whining like a bunch of kindergarten kids protesting nap time, they've taken to the streets flinging out the buzzwords of the day (women's rights, equality) to try to overturn the ruling.
I have no brief one way or the other on the merits of the sport. What I take issue with is the lack of willingness to accept the authority of the IOC, who are, after all, only doing what they are paid to do. Sort of. Somebody has to be in charge. As soon as there is controversy, of course, politicians, who have no dignity to preserve, and the press, who will promote anything that produces easy copy, get into the act, and the situation deteriorates into a noisy brawl.
It's symptomatic of a larger malaise in our society, the presumed almighty right to have exactly what one wants exactly at the minute one wants it. And, when this doesn't happen, the almighty right to throw tantrums in public places. This everlasting sniveling over every minor setback is unseemly. Aren't these folk supposed to be good sports?