* Stade Olympique de Chamonix-Cross-country skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Ice hockey, Military patrol, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing ), and Speed skating

Figure skating was rejected by the organisers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games.

Nordic skating was developed during the 1900s in Sweden from the original Dutch Skating which is another sport.

* Nordic skating official terms by the Finnish Skating Union SLL-SLU of Finland

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.

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.

* List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in nordic combined

On 26 May 2006, the International Ski Federation decided to allow women to ski jump at the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic and then to have a team event for women at the 2011 world championships.

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.

Category: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing

Zakopane hosted the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1929, 1939, and 1962 ; the winter Universiades in 1956, 1993, and 2001 ; the biathlon World Championship ; several ski jumping world cups ; and several Nordic combined, Nordic and Alpine European Cups.

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.

* Nordic skiing, see FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

* Håvard Klemetsen-a Nordic combined skier with a gold and bronze team medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.

Kongsberg hosted the cross-country skiing parts of the 2006 Nordic skiing National Championships.

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.

In 1979, Oslo was awarded the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982, and further upgrades to the hill were necessary.

The Holmenkollen Ski Festival is an annual Nordic skiing event which takes places at Holmenkollen.

The largest regional airline in the Nordic countries, Widerøe has a turnover of, 2 million annual passengers, 1, 400 employees and makes 400 take-offs and landings each day.

Each annual session of Parliament the MPs elect Finland ’ s delegations to the Nordic Council and the Council of Europe.

* The Rocky Mountain Ski Challenge is an annual ski marathon hosted by the Canmore Nordic Ski Club.

In 2012, as many as 11 Nordic Folkboats have been registered for annual Offshore Championship of Estonia.

Started in 1967, Nordic Fest grew from Luther College Women ’ s Club annual celebration of Norwegian Constitution Day.

The Hammerskins host several annual concerts, including Hammerfest, an annual event in both the United States and Europe in honor of deceased Hammerskin Joe Rowan, the lead singer of the band Nordic Thunder.

He also launched annual publications on sport ( International Cycling Guide, International Running Guide ), classical music ( International Music Guide ), television ( International TV and Video Guide ) and the Nordic area ( The Scandinavian Guide ).

** MGP Junior ( Denmark ), Danish Junior song contest that selects the entry to represent Norway in the annual MGP Nordic

** Melodi Grand Prix Junior or MGP jr., Norwegian Junior song contest that selects the entry to represent Norway in the annual MGP Nordic

* 4 May – Nordic development ministers, at their annual meeting in Sweden, decide to continue supporting to the African National Congress

Home to the annual Frankonian Switzerland Marathon, beginning in Forchheim and slowly climbing to Sachsenmühle-Wende, then back to Ebermannstadt, the area includes 375 km of some of the best trails for running, Nordic walking, and rambling in Germany maintained by the European-Community-funded Running Experience Project which was launched in July 2011.

The club arranges an annual football tournament, the Mid Nordic Cup, which is played at the Fagervik playing fields in Timrå.

* Berserker, berserkergang, an initiatory Nordic warrior-rite ; the young Scandinavian warrior of old or Viking had to symbolically transform into a bear or wolf before he could become an elite warrior ( cf.

Noble built the 72-voice Nordic Choir into one of the most elite a cappella college choirs in the United States.

In Great Britain 17, 000 lobotomies were performed, and the three Nordic countries of Finland, Norway, and Sweden had a combined figure of approximately 9, 300 lobotomies.

Celtic giants also figure in Breton and Arthurian romances perhaps as a reflection of the Nordic and Slavic mythology that arrived on the boats, and from this source they spread into the heroic tales of Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and their follower Edmund Spenser.

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 ).

Century Sports teams include dance, bowling, football, tennis, wrestling, swimming, cross country running, soccer, softball, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, volleyball, track and field, Nordic / cross country skiing *, rowing *, and figure skating *,.

Today Waralden Olmai is a mythologic figure in Nordic countries.

* A legendary figure in Nordic mythology, see Hedin and Högni