US EditionAnnika Malacinski’s Emotional Fight for Women’s Inclusion in Nordic Combined
Annika Malacinski leads efforts to add women’s Nordic combined to the Olympic program by 2030, as the sport faces possible removal due to low participation and TV viewership, IOC says.
- Now focused on 2030, Malacinski says she will keep pushing after being shut out at Milan Cortina, campaigning to add women's Nordic combined to the Winter Games.
- The IOC says Nordic combined has struggled to attract nations and a limited television audience, and it remains the only Winter Olympic discipline excluding women since the first modern Olympics in 1896.
- A frequent top-10 finisher, she notes she `jumps the same ski jumps and skis the same courses` as male athletes, and described the exclusion as devastating.
- Female skiers in Seefeld protested last weekend by raising poles into an X to highlight exclusion, as 47% female participation is seen at Milan Cortina, despite Nordic combined's risks.
- With most disparities now reduced, adding women's Nordic combined would complete the Winter Games' gender parity, despite slow Olympic change, as nearly all event differences are eliminated.
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Annika Malacinski's emotional fight for women's inclusion in Nordic combined
U.S. Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski is leading the fight for gender equality at the Winter Olympics after women were excluded from the sport at the upcoming Milan Cortina Games.
Nordic combined is everything to Annika Malacinski. She competes on a global scale, but her dream of making it to the Winter Olympics is still just a dream. Not because she's not good enough, but because she's a woman.
Olympic machismo and structural exclusion: the protest of women in Nordic Combined in 2026
In January 2026, during official Nordic Combined World Cup events held in Central Europe —with visible actions in venues such as Seefeld, Austria, and Oberstdorf, Germany— athletes from the women’s circuit staged the most forceful protest to date against their exclusion from the Olympic program. In finish areas, ceremonies and media spaces, dozens of competitors demonstrated in a coordinated manner to denounce that Nordic Combined remains, well …
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