US Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski has issued an Instagram following the IOC's decision to ban women from Winter Olympics sport.

The sport has been a part of the Olympics since the first Winter Games in 1924. It’s a combination of the two main Nordic events: cross-country skiing and ski jumping. Athletes

Norway's Jens Lurås Oftebro claimed gold in the Nordic combined skiing normal hill/10 kilometres event on Wednesday amid hopes of a good promotion of the endangered Olympic sport. Having started the cross country pursuit in seventh place after a morning ski jump,

Nordic combined crowned its first medalists on Wednesday as the fight over the sport's Olympic future rages on.

Nordic combined faces Olympic elimination after 102 years. The sport excludes women, leaving athletes like Alexa Brabec fighting for inclusion.

Estonian skier Kristjan Ilves came sixth overall in the Nordic Combined event at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, though was in the lead after the initial ski jumping round.

The Winter Olympics bring sports we barely see outside of these few weeks. Many of them look exciting. Some of them look like a bad idea for normal people. A lot of these events mix speed, ice, height,