One of the six sports contested at the first Winter Games in 1924, Nordic combined combines ski jumping with a cross-country race.

Men’s Olympic hockey starts Wednesday, with 12 nations competing in this year’s tournament.

U.S. ski star Mikaela Shiffrin failed to medal Tuesday with U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson in the women’s team combined Alpine event, continuing Shiffrin’s run of disappointment at the Winter Olympics.

Breezy Johnson is poised to earn her second gold of the Olympics on Tuesday — as long as American teammate Mikaela Shiffrin can maintain the U.S.'s advantage in the new team combined event.

It would have marked the second gold of these Games in Italy for Johnson, who had already captured the women’s downhill event over the weekend, and she had posted the fastest time in the downhill port...