This week's WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series is just the beginning of a packed calendar for the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which will host several international competitions at the Olympic sites in Lake Placid between October and March.

Many international competitions will return for another season, including events in skiing, sliding, hockey, biathlon, and figure skating. The Olympic Jumping Complex will host the FIS Freestyle Aerials World Cup in January, followed by the return of the men's and women's FIS Ski Jumping World Cups. The FIS Nordic Combined World Cup will also return to Lake Placid for the first time since 1989.

The sport combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing. The score for the ski jumping event is determined by distance and style. The ski jumping scores then determine the starting order for the cross-country event. The first athlete to cross the finish line wins.

Lake Placid hosted Nordic Combined events in the 1932 and 1980 Olympics. The FIS Nordic Combined World Cup wasn't introduced until 1983 — just six years before Lake Placid hosted its first and only Nordic Combined World Cup event — until now.

The United States has only hosted a handful of FIS Nordic Combined World Cup events since 1983 and it wasn't until 2010 that the U.S. won an Olympic medal in the sport.

Nordic Combined is the only Winter Olympic sport that has not featured a women's event. Women compete in the FIS World Cup circuit, but women's events weren't introduced to the professional World Cup circuit until 2020.

There have been petitions to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include a women's event in the Games, but officials have declined due to "low interest," saying the entire program, including the men's event, was already at risk.

In July, the IOC announced the Nordic Combined program would be cut from the Games in 2030. Officials said the decision was the result of a lack of involved nations and interest outside of Europe.

FIS has taken steps in an attempt to keep Nordic Combined in the Olympic Winter Games, including training, fundraising, and international partnerships to help grow the sport. Historically, Norway has dominated the podium, but in the 2025/2026 season, FIS said seven nations were represented in the top 10 in the women's overall standings.