In less than 100 days, athletes from all over the world will be competing in different events in four disciplines – cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping and Nordic combined – at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China.
There are 12 events in cross-country skiing, the longest one is basically a marathon on snow.
Adding shooting to cross-country skiing creates a new discipline, biathlon, which has 11 events.
Some of the athletes will have a "flying" contest after descending from a specially designed ramp in five events of ski jumping.
And by putting cross-country skiing and ski jumping together, they will have another three events of Nordic combined to compete with each other.
Athletes compete in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships men's cross country 50km mass start in Oberstdorf, Germany, March 7, 2021. /CFP
Quentin Fillon Maillet of France competes at the shooting range in the men's 15 km mass start at the IBU World Championships Biathlon Ostersund in Ostersund, Sweden, March 21, 2021. /CFP
Michael Hayboeck of Austria competes in the men's team HS 240 at the Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Planica in Planica, Slovenia, March 27, 2021. /CFP
Athletes compete in the men's Gundersen Large Hill HS140/10.0 km at the Viessmann FIS Nordic Combined World Cup Klingenthal in Klingenthal, Germany, February 7, 2021. /CFP
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