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.

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.

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.

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.

For Norwegian Nordic combined skiers Jens and Einar Luraas Oftebro, competing together at the Winter Olympics means almost as much as winning medals.

Female athletes excluded from participation in demanding double-discipline events at Milano-Cortina

Updated Feb. 19 medal table: Norway extends its lead to 16 gold and 34 total as ski mountaineering debuts and Nordic combined adds another Norway gold. The post Winter Olympics Medal Count Today (Feb.