TESERO, Italy (AP) — Nordic goodbye? It could be the last Olympics for a sport that mixes the grace of ski jumping with the grind of cross-country skiing. Nordic combined events at the Milan Cortina Games ended Thursday.

Reigning World Cup champion Vinzenz Geiger fell not once but twice in the concluding super team event as Nordic combined powerhouses Germany finished without a medal in the sport for the first time in 28 years.

Norway's Jens Lurås Oftebro won his third gold of the Milan/Cortina Olympics in the Nordic combined team sprint on Thursday as Germany - thanks to a double fall - ended a Winter Games without a medal in the discipline for the first time since 1998.

Nordic combined is the only Olympic sport at Milan-Cortina that does not have a women's event. BBC Sport takes a look at why.

Colorado's U.S. Senators are urging the International Olympic Committee to keep Nordic Combined in future winter games and include women. Several Steamboat Springs athletes are the best in the world.

For Norwegian Nordic combined skiers Jens and Einar Luraas Oftebro, competing together at the Winter Olympics means almost as much as winning medals.

TESERO, Italy (AP) — U.S. team skier Annika Malacinski attended the Nordic combined at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday to cheer for her younger brother. And protest. Annika came from her training base in Norway to watch brother Niklas finish 13th in his Olympic debut.