Description and Requirements
Not just anyone can join the Olympics there are requirements to join. The first one is age range, it varies from sport to sport but Nordic Combined is 15 years old. Also not everyone who signs up can enter only the best of the best can enter! Many enter but only 30 are picked. They learn how to ski at local resorts and snowboarding clubs is a primary starting points. Places like Cooper and Winter Park are good places to start. You might be wondering how do the competitors win right? Well there are three metals they give away. Gold means they got first, Silver means they got second, Bronze means you got third. First is the best, second is in between, and third is last, but winning any of the metals calls for a celebration. The scoring is based on how good was the jump, how good was you style during the jump, and when you cross the finish line.
Nordic Combined lives up to it's name the sport is a combination of ski jumping and cross country skiing. Cross country skiing is when you ski across flat ground sometimes down hill but unlike regular skiing ware it is all down hill only some of it is down hill. Ski jumping is ware you fly down hill and at the bottom of the hill is a big jump you can fly off of and do a really cool trick.
A Nordic Combined Jump
The Nordic Combined Symbol
Nordic Combined is broken up into different parts but they all involve cross country skiing and ski jumping. The fist contest is {drum roll please} individual ski jumping ware it is every men for them selves no teams. Next is 70m men meaning 70 meters men. After that there is sprint K12 men meaning go as fast as you can. Finally, there is team/4 by 5 km men. That was for the men meaning that all those events only men get to compete in them but there is the mixed competition for boys and girls. First one and the only on is Nordic Combined mixed teams NH/ 3 by 3.3km.
The Rules