Overview
- Before the women's distance start on Jan. 30 in Seefeld, competitors raised their poles in an "X" to protest their omission from the Winter Olympics.
- Women's Nordic combined has been held at the FIS World Championships since 2021, yet it is not included in the upcoming Olympic program.
- Japan's Yuna Kasai said the action was meant to make the situation widely known ahead of the Games.
- In the women's World Cup race at Seefeld, Kasai finished fifth and Yuzuki Kainuma placed sixth.
- The meet used a mass-start format that opened the three-event Seefeld Triple; in the men’s field Akito Watabe marked a record 300th World Cup start and finished 17th, and Austria’s Johannes Lamparter won.