Kikkan Randall Wins Her 1st Medal In Cross-Country — A Gold — After 18 Tries
Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins are the first American women ever to win a medal in cross-country — and they made it gold.
by Bill Chappell
Feb 21, 2018
2 minutes
In the last event of her last Olympics – she has been to five – Kikkan Randall finally did what no American woman had ever done: win a medal in cross-country skiing. And she made it a gold, as Randall and her teammate Jessica Diggins won the team sprint free final at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Randall and Diggins snared gold by a nose, with Diggins sprinting to the finish
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