
The sport of Nordic combined—a discipline fusing cross-country skiing and ski jumping—is one of the Winter Olympics’ foundational events, dating all the way back to the 1924 Games in Chamonix, France.
However, along with parallel giant slalom snowboarding, it may be on the chopping block for the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The most significant strike against it? Women have never competed in Nordic combined at the Olympic level.