Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Diggins It

Cross-country skier Jessie Diggins was best known to Comcast viewers for commercials for the Internet service provider, showing everyone in her hometown of Afton, Minnesota, a town supposedly out in the middle of nowhere (it's actually just east of St. Paul) waking up in the middle of the night to see her compete in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.  Now everyone knows who she is; she's the American who, with partner Kikkan Randall, won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s team sprint freestyle in PyeongChang, the first cross-country gold medals for the U.S. and the first U.S. medal on the sport since Bill Koch (pronounced "coke") won a silver in 1976.
Ladies and gentlemen, cross-country Olympic champion (and Comcast spokeswoman) Jessica Diggins!
I dig! :-)
And here's Kikkan Randall.
Nice hair. :-D
Talk about Olympic highlights! :-D 

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