American Jessie Diggins pushes through extreme pain to win bronze at Winter Olympics

American Olympian Jessie Diggins pushed arsenic hard arsenic she could crossed the decorativeness enactment successful the women’s cross-country skiing 10-kilometer freestyle and nabbed a bronze medal astatine the Winter Olympics connected Thursday.

Diggins, battling bruised ribs, was trying to marque the podium successful betwixt Swedish and Norwegian skiers. She endured the symptom and fell to the ground.

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Jessie Diggins, of the United States, falls to the crushed aft crossing the decorativeness enactment successful the transverse state skiing women's 10km interval commencement escaped astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Tesero, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026.  (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

She was writhing successful symptom conscionable aft crossing the line. The NBC broadcast heard Diggins outcry arsenic her teammate tried to assistance her retired portion she tried to drawback her breath. Diggins did it for emotion of the athletics and present tin telephone herself an Olympic medalist. She crossed the enactment astatine 23.38.90.

Sweden’s Frida Karlsson had the apical clip of 22:49.20, finishing 46.6 seconds up of chap Swede Ebba Andersson. Norway’s Astria Oeyre Slind was conscionable implicit 3 seconds down Diggins.

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Jessie Diggins of the United States and Hailey Swirbul of the United States respond aft the contention connected Feb. 12, 2026. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)

It’s the archetypal medal for Team USA connected the time arsenic the U.S. looked to bent with Italy and Norway successful the full medal standings.

Diggins was a metallic medalist successful the 2022 Beijing Olympics successful the event. She besides had a bronze successful the idiosyncratic sprint successful those Games. Diggins was a portion of the gold-medal winning squad sprint astatine the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.

She tin inactive prime up much medals with the 50-meter classical contention and the 4x7.5-kilometer relay inactive to come.

Jessie Diggins of United States and Krista Parmakoski of Finland successful enactment connected Feb. 12, 2026.  (REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq)

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Diggins and American Ben Ogden are present medalists successful the sport. Ogden won a metallic successful the men’s classical sprint earlier this week.

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