Title: Brave Enough Year: 2020 Author: Jessie Diggins (With Todd Smith) Genre: Biography Published by: University of Minnesota Press Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final seconds of the women's team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight into Olympic immortality: the first-ever cross-country skiing gold medal for the United States at the Winter Games. Twenty-six-year-old Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, Where she first strapped on skis. Yet for all her history-making achievements, she had never strayed far from the scrappy twelve-year-old who has insisted on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders, "Look! I'm doing it!" In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals th
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