A women’s Nordic combined will not be added to the programme for the 2026 Games in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday. Nordic combined, which sees athletes ski jump then ski cross country, is the only Olympic sport contested solely by men at the Games. The IOC had considered beginning women’s events in the discipline at the next edition in Italy. But the IOC’s executive board said it did not see evidence that more female athletes from more countries would compete. IOC official Karl Stoss said that currently, few female athletes from outside of Eur…