In July 2026 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Nordic combined (an amalgam of ski jumping and cross-country skiing) will not be part of the Olympic program at the upcoming 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps. The IOC had warned for years that the sport, which was one of the six disciplines featured at the inaugural Chamonix 1924 Olympic Winter Games and remained a Winter Olympic event, for male athletes, through the 2026 Milano-Cortina Games, was at risk of being canceled. The IOC stated that it had made the decision to eliminate Nordic combined because the number of athletes competing had declined in recent years and few countries outside the sport’s northern European heartland had sent competitors to recent Games. In the years prior to its elimination, advocates of Nordic combined had fought to both preserve the men’s event and add a women’s event to the Olympic program; between 2014 and 2026 Nordic combined was the only Olympic sport without a women’s event.
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