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Jessie Diggins wins World Cup overall title in a season where starting was the biggest victory


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Jessie Diggins won a second World Cup overall title as part of what has become the most successful season ever for an American cross-country skier.

Diggins, a 32-year-old Olympic medalist of every color, outlasted Swede Linn Svahn in a competition that lasted to Sunday's final race of a 34-race season that began in November.

Diggins' standings lead, which was 340 points on Feb. 10, was trimmed to 75 points going into Sunday's finale.

That was still plenty comfortable: Diggins would hold off Svahn with a top-20 finish in Sunday's 20km freestyle in Falun, Sweden, which is an ideal distance and technique for the American.

She did plenty more than that. Diggins won the race, her sixth individual victory of the campaign to break Kikkan Randall's single-season American record.

She first won the overall title, which crowns the world's best all-around cross-country skier, in 2021, becoming the first American woman to do so.

The overall standings are ...

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