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Jessie Diggins wins last World Cup cross-country race before Olympics

U.S. women won the last two World Cup cross-country skiing races before the Olympics. Now, can they carry that momentum to PyeongChang to win the program’s first Olympic medal since 1976?

One day after Sophie Caldwell tied for a win in a photo finish, Jessie Diggins left no doubt by skiing away from a batch of Norwegians to win a 10km freestyle in Austria on Sunday.

Diggins won by seven tenths of a second in the mass-start race over World Cup overall leader Heidi Weng.

Marit Bjoergen, a 10-time Olympic medalist who came back from childbirth to dominate last season’s world championships, was fifth.