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Courchevel hosted the Nordic combined events for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. The ski jumps at Utah Olympic Park hosted the ski jumping portion of the Nordic combined events for the 2002 Winter Olympics in neighboring Salt Lake City. For the Winter Olympics, there are 36 venues that have been or will be used for Nordic combined.
The team event with a 3 x 10 km cross country relay started at the 1988 Winter Olympics, changing to the current 4 x 5 km cross-country relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The 7.5 km sprint event was added at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Nordic combined remains a men's only event as of the 2010 Winter Olympics. For the 2010 Winter Games, the 15 km ...
Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first Winter Olympics in 1924 , while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup has been held since 1983.
In 1936, the first efforts to hold all of Nordic skiing (Nordic combined, ski jumping) in one location took place. [1] This was repeated in 1952 . [ 2 ] For the 1956 games , the venue was among the first in the Winter Olympics to meet the television needs of RAI , Italy 's national broadcaster. [ 3 ]
Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980 , the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in even-numbered non-Olympic years.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, one Nordic combined event was contested. This marked the first time in Olympic history that the ski jumping portion of the competition was held before the 18 km cross-country skiing segment. [1]
The new World Cup season, which starts in Austria on Oct. 23-24, does not have any combined events, and they are unlikely to return to the calendar any time soon.
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the 18 km race of cross-country skiing. Those results can be found above in this article in the cross-country skiing section. Some athletes (but not all) entered in both the cross-country skiing and Nordic combined event, their time on the 18 km was used for both events.