Three European applications for the 2029 International Ski and
Snowboard Federation Alpine World Ski Championships have been
submitted, but there is only one candidate for Nordic and Ski Flying
World Championships in the same year.
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The International Ski Federation has slammed the International Olympic
Committee decision to leave women's Nordic combined off the programme
for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
The sporting year of 2022 seems destined to be defined by events which
will bring both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA under
intense scrutiny over their relationships with host nations.
Nordic combined: Akito Watabe takes large hill bronze at world c ships
Japan s Akito Watabe took bronze in the Nordic combined large hill individual Gundersen competition Thursday to reach the podium at a third straight Nordic World Ski Championships.
Reigning junior world champion Johannes Lamparter from Austria won the event in Oberstdorf, Germany, ahead of normal hill world champion Jarl Magnus Riiber and Watabe.
Japan s Akito Watabe (L) and Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway compete in the 10-kilometer cross-country leg of the men s large hill Nordic combined individual Gundersen competition at the FIS Ski World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany, on March 4, 2021. (Nordic Focus/Kyodo)