"I mean, we both live in Norway, we live in a place that we didn't grow up in just to be the best that we can be. And the only thing that is stopping me from being at the Olympic Village right now is because I'm a female."
"You have to have so many high-level skills and be at such a high level in two different sports It's incredibly thrilling and it's kind of an all-in-one package."
"And just [in] the past decade, it's started to be available for women the one thing that is missing is the Olympics."
Annika Malacinski, a U.S. Nordic combined skier ranked 10th in the world, is present at the Winter Olympics in Italy but cannot compete because women are not allowed. She is cheering on her younger brother Niklas in the same sport. Female athletes train and sacrifice at the same level as male competitors and often live abroad to pursue elite performance. Nordic combined pairs ski jumping with a 10-kilometer cross-country race, with jumping scores determining cross-country start order. The discipline debuted at the 1924 Winter Games and remains the only Olympic sport that excludes women. Women's Nordic combined joined the World Cup circuit in 2020 and the world championships program in 2021.
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