Jessie Diggins has done something that no American has ever done before: won a gold medal in an individual cross-country skiing race at a world or Olympic championship event.
The streaming channels have hit it big with sports-reality shows lately. “Drive to Survive” captures the speed and the glamour of Formula 1 racing, and “Break Point” the glamour and the psychological grind of big-time tennis. If you were going to make a series about Nordic ski racing, though, there’s only one possible theme: not glamour but the pure suffering involved in what’s often regarded as the world’s most taxing sport.
Diggins warmed up for Tuesday’s race with Sunday’s team sprint, in which she was paired with the rising American star Julia Kern, and they took the bronze, behind Sweden and Norway. Diggins had looked at peak fitness in that race, charging from gun to tape, and setting the expectations for Tuesday’s race even higher. There’s little coverage of cross-country skiing in the U.S.
Diggins was sandwiched between her main competitors, Karlsson and her fellow-Swede Ebba Andersson, each of them more elegant skiers than Diggins. As the three circled the course, yelling coaches were able to let them know their approximate standings vis-à-vis one another, and at the eight-kilometre mark Diggins was barely ahead, just a couple of ticks of the clock.
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