Nordic Combined

Table Of Contents

1. What is Nordic Combined2. Events on this Olympic Sport3. Participants(Qualified Nations)4. Individual Event for Canada team5. Mass Start6. Team Relay7. Sprint8. Hurricane Sprint9. Conclusion

What is Nordic Combined

Nordic Combined is a winter sport that involves skiing off a slope and cross-country skiing. This Olympic event has been contested since 1892 at Holmenkollen Ski Festival at Oslo.

The events

Individual Mass Start Team Relay Sprint Hurricane Sprint

Participants(Qualified Nations)

Qualified Nations

This list was released by the FIS on January 18 2010

Nation Skiers/Athletes

Austria 5

Finland 5

France 5

Germany 5

Japan 5

Norway 5

Switzerland 5

United States 5

Czech Republic 4

Italy 4

Slovenia 3

Russia 2

Canada 1

Ukraine 1

Individual Event for Canada team

Jason Myslicki

Mass Start

In the mass start event, the cross country race is held first. The winner of that event receives 120 points, the others get 15 points subtracted for each minute behind the leader. In the ski jump, no style points are awarded, although jumpers receive fewer points for falling or failing to make a telemark landing.

Team Relay

The team event is again similar to the individual event, but contested by teams of four athletes. Each takes 1 jump from the ski jumping large hill, with all jumps counting towards the team total.

Sprint

The sprint event is basically the same, but only one jump is performed on the large hill, and the cross-country distance is 7.5 km.

Hurricane Sprint

Recently, a newer form called "Hurricane sprint" has been introduced, which is similar to the sprint using the Gundersen method, but based on extra distance instead of extra time. The distance is still 7.5 km, but only the best contestant from the ski jumping will run that distance and all others start a given distance behind,

Conclusion

We hope that you learned a lot from this wiki page and to cheer for team Canada.

Bibliography Picture of Athletes At slide 9 from

www.canada.com/.../1179958/story.html by Mike Beamism

Picture of an Athlete at Slide 8 from nbcsports.msnbc.com/.../sports-winter_olympics/ by Adam Pretty

Pictures of Jason Myslicki slide 6 from www.olympic.ca/.../?comments-sort-by=recent

Picture of Jason Myslicki slide 6 from jasonmyslicki.com/blog/?page_id=3

Pictures on slide 11,4,3 and 1 from clip art.