Jessie Diggins takes third Olympic medal - "I've finished with nothing left"

Jessie Diggins enhanced her legacy as USA's greatest cross-country skier with silver in the 30km mass start free at Beijing 2022 on Sunday.

Diggins, 30, was second to Norway's Therese Johaug, who claimed her third individual title in Beijing, to win her country's 25th and final medal of these Olympic Winter Games.

Having already won bronze in the individual sprint, making her USA's first woman to win a medal in cross-country, she became the first American cross-country skier to win two medals at a single Games.

It's yet more history for Diggins who also claimed Team USA's first gold in the sport with Kikkan Randall in the PyeongChang 2018 team sprint.

Incredibly, she had suffered from food poisoning on the eve of her final event of the Games.

She told Olympics.com that she did not carry much confidence into the race, saying, "If I'm being honest, 24 hours ago I felt really bad and I just laid in bed yesterday mostly and ate food and drank sport drinks.

"But it worked and I think maybe because it's been so cold and so hard, maybe extra rest is what I needed."

Given that less-than-ideal preparation, it was perhaps no surprise that Diggins collapsed immediately after crossing the line.

She said, "Every last drop of energy went into that race for sure, and the last two laps my legs were cramping so I just kept trying to drink as much feeds as I could.

"We had amazing cheering out there and I was like 'I just can't give up'. I put everything I have into the snow today and finished with nothing left."

In the individual sprint free earlier in the Games, Diggins took bronze behind Swedish pair Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist.

After that race, she said, "I'm so grateful because this medal really belongs to the whole team. And