by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins‘ silver medal in the Olympic 30km cross-country skiing race, set amid food poisoning and a solo trek through single-digit temperatures last February, was one of gutsiest efforts in recent Winter Games history. Diggins recently described it in an...
by admin | Dec 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins skied into the U.S. record books once again on Friday when she won the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle in the cross-country world cup event in Lillehammer, Norway. Diggins, a three-time Olympic medalist, notched her 13th individual world cup victory to...
by admin | May 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
With three-time Olympic medalist Jessie Diggins leading the way, the U.S. women’s cross-country team has made major strides in recent years. But outside of the athletes competing, the world of cross-country skiing remains something of a boys’ club. Read...
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 | 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 | Feb 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Embracing the suffering, Jessie Diggins dug deep to secure bronze for the United States. The win secured the first ever women’s individual cross-country sprint medal for the United States at the Winter Olympics and just the second overall (Bill Koch – silver in...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Reigning Olympic team sprint gold medalist Jessie Diggins is back for her third Games, determined to prove she’s among cross-country skiing’s individual elites after claiming a Tour de Ski title and two crystal globes in 2021, while two-time World Cup...
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...
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