First Nordic combined competition: The Holmenkollen Ski Festival, Oslo 1892

Year of the first world championship: 1925

Olympic birth: 1924 Chamonix

Women in sport: There are no women's Nordic combined events in the Olympics or World Cup

The first Olympic sprint event: 2002 Salt Lake City

The year that ski jumping results determined cross-country skiing start order (Gundersen Method): 1988

Years Oddbjorn Haggen won back-to-back Nordic combined world championships: 1934 and 1935

The next athlete to win back-to-back Nordic combined world championships: Bjarte Engen Vik (66 years after Oddbjorn Haggen)

The year the ski jump competition and cross-country race were held on the same day during the Olympics: 1988 Calgary (due to poor weather)

A rising star from France: Two months before the 1992 Albertville Games, Fabrice Guy won four of five pre-Olympic World Cup events and went on to claim Olympic gold.

Team sizes increased from three members to four: 1998Nagano

Team cross-country ski distances changed in 1998: From 10 km to 5 km

Based on their phenomenal ski jump performance in Albertville in 1992, the Japanese team earned this head start over second place Austrians in the cross-country portion: 2 minutes, 27 seconds

Number of years before Norway was dethroned in Olympic Nordic combined: 12

First Canadian since 1992 to compete full time on the international circuit: Jason Myslicki