Jessie Diggins caps historic weekend for U.S. winter sports athletes
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 10, 2023
Jessie Diggins won a World Cup cross-country skiing race to complete one of the best weekends across the board in recent U.S. winter sports history.
Diggins crushed a 10km freestyle field in Östersund, Sweden, prevailing by 23 seconds for a second consecutive weekend to extend her World Cup overall standings lead.
“Today was for the boys,” Diggins said, referencing countrymen J.C. Schoonmaker and Ben Ogden placing third and fourth in Saturday’s sprint, each’s best World Cup finish. “I was incredibly motivated and so fired up and so overwhelmed with the . . .
