It is always a big goal to win a gold with the team because it is not just us, it is for everybody — the waxers, all the staff and other athletes — so it is a perfect ending.” Oftebro swept all three Nordic combined competitions;

Reigning World Cup champion Vinzenz Geiger fell not once but twice in the concluding super team event as Nordic combined powerhouses Germany finished without a medal in the sport for the first time in 28 years.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski has attended the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics in Italy to cheer for her younger brother Niklas.

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.