2022 Winter Olympics Preview: Jessie Diggins

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Jessie Diggins leads Team USA's cross country skiing team into the Beijing Olympics after riding the momentum from Diggins' comeback gold medal in the Team Sprint at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

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00:00 Welcome to the Alpensia Cross Country Skiing Center and to the finals of the

00:04 women's team sprint.

00:07 They come, couple of hundred meters to go it's anybody's.

00:10 In the final stretch I was just thinking go go go I'm giving it everything I had.

00:14 It's Sweden and the United States stride for stride push for push who's it gonna

00:19 be Nilsson or Diggins and the United States has done it!

00:23 From Sweden and Norway oh what a performance from Jess Diggins.

00:32 It feels unreal like I can't believe it just happened yeah it's just believing that we

00:39 had what it took the entire day.

00:43 I would say you know when it is brought up or if I do think of it it's almost more of

00:49 a warm feeling of how our sport is growing and and what it means to people to feel inspired

00:55 and fired up and excited about cross-country skiing it's less of a like oh yeah I did that.

01:04 I'm someone who doesn't want to rely on successes of us I want to feel like I'm proud of who

01:09 I am today.

01:10 you

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