by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Two months after adding two more Olympic medals to her resume, U.S. cross-country star Jessie Diggins took her hardware to Capitol Hill, where she was among several winter Olympians to lobby members of Congress to act on climate change. “Winning a gold medal for me...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World Cup cross-country skiing races are set to be the same distances for women and men next season after women historically had shorter races outside of sprints. The International Ski Federation (FIS) cross-country committee, made up of members of national...
by admin | Mar 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Charlotte Kalla, who holds Sweden’s female record of nine Olympic medals, will retire from elite cross-country skiing after her national championships that began Thursday. Kalla, in a social media post, said she made the difficult decision over the last month. Read...
by admin | Feb 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Much like the glitter she wears on her cheeks, Team USA‘s Jessie Diggins’ first and second career Olympic medals came with sparkling fashion marked by furious sprints. Her third Olympic medal, however, required a long slog. But the result is just as shiny. Read...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The last few seconds are brutal. They are supposed to be. No matter how much or how hard Jessie Diggins trains, she never expects to feel good when she pushes toward her absolute limit at the end of a race. Sometimes she squeezes so much out of her body that her...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The phrase “control the controllables” is recited so frequently by athletes that the cliched phrase has lost some of its meaning. But for Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Jessie Diggins, that mentality is at the core of her success. “I know I sound like a...
by admin | Dec 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins earned her second win in three stages of the Tour de Ski, moving back into first place in the overall standings of the Tour de France-like cross-country skiing stage race. Diggins won a furious sprint to the finish line of a 10km freestyle in...
by admin | Dec 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins essentially wrapped up a spot on her third U.S. Olympic team by earning her first cross-country skiing World Cup victory of the season on Tuesday. Diggins won a freestyle sprint in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, to open the annual Tour de Ski, a Tour de...
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