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In one of many ultimate occasions of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Jessie Diggins closed out her Video games with a bang, incomes a silver medal within the girls’s cross-country 30-kilometer mass begin race.
As she crossed the end line with tears streaming down her face, Diggins collapsed. She had carried out what no American lady had ever carried out on the Olympics, and she or he did it twice.
On Feb. 5, Diggins turned the first-ever American lady to win a person cross-country medal on the Olympics after profitable bronze within the 1.5-kilometer girls’s cross-country particular person dash.
She added to her legacy as probably the greatest feminine American cross-country skiers on Saturday night time by profitable her second particular person cross-country medal.
Diggins turned the primary non-European lady to medal within the occasion on the Olympics.
For minutes after ending, Diggins struggled to face, having given each ounce of her power to the grueling race.
Diggins, a former Westminster School scholar, completed the 30-kilometer race in Zhangjiakou in 1 hour, 26 minutes and 37 seconds.
She was 1 minute and 43 seconds behind Norway’s Therese Johaug, who turned in a time of 1:24:54.0 to win gold.
Finland’s Kerttu Niskanen received the bronze medal with a time of 1:27:27.3.
Salt Lake Metropolis resident Rosie Diggins completed sixth out of 63 rivals with a time of 1:27:32.7.
Sophia Laukli, a member of the College of Utah ski group, completed fifteenth with a time of 1:31:21.2, and Novie McCabe, one other member of the College of Utah ski group, completed 18th with a time of 1:31:22.5.
Diggins’ second-place end earned the 30-year previous her third Olympic medal general after she received gold within the group dash on the 2018 Video games.
Afterward, when she stepped to the rostrum, Diggins smiled and pumped her fists.
Competitors on the 2022 Olympics wrapped up on Saturday night time, with Diggins incomes one of many final accessible medals.
How different athletes with Utah ties did in Saturday’s medal occasions
Bobsled — two-woman
Kaysha Love — Born in West Jordan, Salt Lake Metropolis resident — seventh place out of 20 groups.
Cross-country snowboarding — males’s 50km mass begin
Snorri Einarsson (Iceland) — College of Utah (2007-08 Utah ski group) — twenty third place out of 60 rivals.
Speedskating — males’s mass begin
Joey Mantia — Salt Lake Metropolis resident — fourth place out of 16 rivals
Speedskating — girls’s mass begin
Giorgia Birkeland — Salt Lake Group School (present scholar) — twelfth place out of 17 rivals.