One Olympic sport doesn't allow women. These Games could determine its future

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.
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Colorado's U.S. Senators urge Winter Olympic officials to keep Nordic Combined, add women

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.

There's one Olympic sport where women are still not allowed to compete

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.
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Olympic women furious over Nordic combined snub

When organizers describe the 2026 Winter Olympics as the most gender-balanced in history, there is one glaring exception: Nordic combined. The discipline — which merges ski jumping with a 10-kilometer cross-country race — remains closed to women at the Olympic level,

US skier protests women’s exclusion from Olympic sport while cheering for brother at Milan Cortina

TESERO, Italy (AP) — U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski attended the Nordic combined at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday to cheer for her younger brother. And protest. Annika came from her training base in Norway to watch brother Niklas finish 13th in his Olympic debut.

Nordic combined - the Olympic sport with no women

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.

Norway's Oftebro wins Second Olympic gold in Nordic combined

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Norway's Oftebro wins 2nd Olympic gold in Nordic combined
Norway's Jens Luraas Oftebro won his second Nordic combined gold medal at the Winter Olympics after the large hill ski jump and 10-kilometer ski race.

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'Our brothership is really good', Oftebro siblings look out for each other in Olympic Nordic combined events

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Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: The latest from Day 13 of the Games including figure skating and ski mountaineering

It is Day 13 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and another eight medals are on offer. Heavy snowfall in Livigno has led to the postponement of the men's freeski halfpipe qualification, but women's qualification is still planned to go ahead later today.

Oftebro beats Lamparter again for Olympic Nordic combined double

Norway's Jens Lurås Oftebro beat Austrian World Cup leader Johannes Lamparter again to complete a first Nordic combined large hill and normal hill events double at Winter Olympics on Tuesday. Oftebro attacked from a three-man leader group in the closing stages to beat Lamparter by 5.