Norway swept the Nordic combined events at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in what could be the final time the sport is featured in the Olympics.
Reigning World Cup champion Vinzenz Geiger fell not once but twice in the concluding super team event as Nordic combined powerhouses Germany finished without a medal in the sport for the first time in 28 years.
Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport that doesn't allow women to compete, despite athletes' efforts to change that. They say their odds for 2030 hinge on people watching men's events this week.
Norway's Jens Lurås Oftebro won his third gold of the Milan/Cortina Olympics in the Nordic combined team sprint on Thursday as Germany - thanks to a double fall - ended a Winter Games without a medal in the discipline for the first time since 1998.
Nordic combined — ski jumping and cross-country in one — remains the only Winter Olympic sport that does not include women, even though women compete on the World Cup circuit and at world championships. “It’s heartbreaking, it really is,” U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski told the Associated Press.
Day 13 at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics started with big drama and big moments across Italy. Canada is waiting on a key injury update for Sid.
Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport at Milan-Cortina that does not have a women's event. BBC Sport takes a look at why.
Colorado's U.S. Senators are urging the International Olympic Committee to keep Nordic Combined in future winter games and include women. Several Steamboat Springs athletes are the best in the world.
U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski has attended the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics in Italy to cheer for her younger brother Niklas.
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