By Peggy Shinn |
Dec. 07, 2022, 11 a.m. (ET)
Jessie Diggins celebrates her silver medal finish in the women’s cross-country 30km mass start free during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 on Feb. 20, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China.
That said, at the 2023 world championships in February, the International Ski Federation (FIS) kept with traditional distances: 15K skiathlon, 10K individual start, and 30K mass start for the women, while the men will compete in a 30K skiathlon, 15K individual start, and 50K mass start.
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Diggins burst onto the cross-country ski team a dozen years ago. Fresh out of college, she won her first national senior title in 2011 and then made her world cup and world championship debut.
Now 31 and newly married, Diggins plans to compete at least through the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, which will be her fourth Olympic Games.
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