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Nordic and skiing
Cross-country skiing is part of the Nordic skiing sport family, which includes ski jumping, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing and ski jumping ), Biathlon ( skiing and rifle marksmanship ) and ski-orienteering ( which included map navigation along snow trails and tracks ).
* Nordic combined, a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping
* Nordic skiing, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing
Also called cross-country, Nordic is the oldest form of skiing and was developed in Scandinavia as a way of travelling over snow.
Sub-genres of Nordic skiing include:
The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the first Holmenkollen Ski Festival, an event still held annually.
Category: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
* Nordic skiing
* Around the hills of St. Moritz-Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing )
* Nordic skiing
* Stade Olympique de Chamonix-Cross-country skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Ice hockey, Military patrol, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing ), and Speed skating
The area lends itself to a wide variety of outdoor sports, both winter ( ice hockey, Nordic and Alpine skiing, figure skating, and snowmobiling ) and summer ( trail running, hiking, camping, river and sea kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and road and mountain biking ).

Nordic and see
The Trundholm sun chariot is dated to c. 1400 BC ( see Nordic Bronze Age ).
The idea of racial differences have been used to justify racial separatism, such as the Greater Germany concept of Nazi Germany ( see Racial policy of Nazi Germany ) and its racial ideal based on the Nordic race.
The first competitions held by Christiania SK were different from today's ski jumping in that the ski jump formed part of a course that included a 4 km stretch of cross country skiing ( see Nordic combined ).
( Polska also means Polish in Swedish ) This view is sometimes challenged by those who see earlier evidence of the musical tradition in Nordic visor or songs, that may have become grafted onto the newer foreign influences when the court dances began to filter out into the middle class and rural communities.
That title ( derived from German " herzog ") then replaced the older Nordic " jarl ", both translated from the Latin title dux, which ( for the first time known ) had already been born by Birger himself ( see introduction to list below ).
* 500 BC, the Germanic tribes appear in northern Germany, see the Nordic Bronze Age.
Nordic awards, Caribbean awards ), see: Category: Literary awards by region.
or the Nordic model which refers to the economic and social models of the Nordic countries ( Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland ) Yet some see Spain and also the newer members of the EU as ( non-English-speaking ) examples of " Anglo-Saxon " economies.
For the Nordic Museum in the Ballard district of Seattle, Washington see Nordic Heritage Museum.
* A legendary figure in Nordic mythology, see Hedin and Högni
The region faced an overwhelming and expanding Soviet force and while he did not expect Soviet direct attack he did see a strategic threat of expanding influence aimed at neutralising the Nordic countries ( and possibly beyond ) and clearing the path into the North Atlantic.

Nordic and FIS
The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.
Hannu Manninen, the most successful athlete in the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup | Nordic Combined World Cup.
This event made its debut at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.
When the event debuted in the 1980s, the event was a 3 x 10 km team event, but that changed following Japan's successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where the country won by almost four minutes and almost five minutes respectively.
The event became a 4 x 5 km team at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario where it has remained ever since.
This form is on the program for the 2007 – 08 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup.
* FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
* List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in nordic combined
* 28 May 2009 FIS-Ski. com on the 2008-09 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup season review.
At the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, he won two medals with a silver in the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit ( stepping up when the original medalist Jari Isometsä was disqualified for hemohes use ), and a gold in the 50 km freestyle race.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a major event of these sports and happens in winter of odd-number years between Winter Olympics.
Below is a list of Nordic skiiers that have won at the Winter Olympics, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and Holmenkollen events.
* Håvard Klemetsen-a Nordic combined skier with a gold and bronze team medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Holmenkollen has hosted the Holmenkollen Ski Festival since 1892, which since 1980 have been part of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and 1983 the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup.
It has also hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics and the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 1930, 1966, 1982 and 2011.
Following the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1940 being awarded to Oslo, the Association for the Promotion of Skiing decided to build a larger in-run.
Following Oslo's decision to bid for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1966, it became evident that more upgrades would be needed to meet the International Ski Federation's requirements.

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