If Heidi Weng and Ingvild Flugstad Østberg do as in the picture above – here after the finish in Alpe Cermis-the ground in the Tour de Ski in January – it will trigger very specific reactions from Jessica Diggins and her teammates.
– Finally! Do not touch her, shouting Diggins teammates.
Sorry, she has this thing… Just don’t touch her…
Diggins opens up about hyperventilation and panikkanfallene she struggles with on his own blog. Lagkompisene her bodyguards after the finish. No one can touch the 27-year-old.
I admire and love my teammates that they will protect me and my special way to fight against the panic attacks on, type the american langrennsstjerna.
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To Dagbladet confirms Kikkan Randall that they don’t get to touch Diggins right after the finish and have to protect her from any congratulations from the competitors.
VIOLATES the RULE: After the OLYMPIC gold in Pyeongchang thrown Kikkan Randall over Jessica Diggins. Thus, broke her team’s internal rule. Photo: Bildbyrån Show more
Randall is the pioneer in the american cross-country and was the world’s best langrennssprinter from around 2011 to 2014, before Diggins took over the role of the United states ‘ best langrennsløper.
Diggins and Randall won together the gold medal at the lagsprinten in the world CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2013, and no later at the OLYMPIC games in Pyeongchang earlier in the year. It has provided many special moments.
– Jessica must be treated in a very special way after an skirenn. We have been told that we should not throw us over her after the finish, ” says Kikkan Randall of the Newspaper.
– When you spend so much time together, you will realize what we should do and what one should avoid.
Broke the “rule” in the OLYMPIC games
Then comes Randall with an admission from when they won OLYMPIC gold together at the lagsprinten in Pyeongchang in front of Sweden and Norway.
I must admit that I have not managed to keep me away when she crossed the finish line first and we won the OLYMPIC gold together in Pyeongchang. I was so ecstatic that I ran out and threw me over her, ” says Randall of the Newspaper.
BIG MOMENT: Jessica Diggins after the OLYMPIC gold on lagsprinten in Pyeongchang along with Kikkan Randall. That someone embraces Diggins after the finish, is a very rare sight. Photo: Bildbyrån Show more
How’d it go?
It was actually good. Jessica was probably so caught in the moment that just then it was not a problem. Lykkerusen took the upper hand, describes the 35-year-old.
Diggins: I freaks out
But normally this is strictly forbidden. Jessica Diggins describes his problem like this:
– I’m struggling to breathe when I reach the goal. When I lie in the snow the first 20 seconds after a race, I keep on to svime and have the horrible pain. Often they will other get away and patting me on the back and say “congratulations” or “good job”, which is very nice, but not when it comes to me. I freaks out if I feel a hand on me in such a situation, in fear of hyperventilere, open the Diggins up in his blog.
– Therefore, there has been an artificial rule in our team that no one has touched me before at the earliest 30 seconds after the finish. It can be quite special, because sometimes it comes runners from other nations away to give me a pat on the back. When running lagkompisene my and yells: “Finally! Do not touch her.”, tells the american langrennsstjerna.
Bjørgen is not heard. Now grab the american star in the Fight against cancer
Diggins is one of the favorites on the fristilssprinten and 10 km freestyle in Davos this weekend, while Randall let up after that last season was crowned with OLYMPIC gold. In the summer she got proven breast cancer.
Also there fighting the american langrennsprofilen as a winner. Earlier in the fall, she received the award “Active against cancer”.
– I want to inspire other fellows to be active through the cancer treatment. It comes to exploit the currently best possible, to fight the tough battles and keep the faith that this will go well, ” says Kikkan Randall, one of this sport’s greatest role models.
She was among other things voted that the IOC member in utøverkommisjonen in the battle against Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen during the OLYMPICS in Pyeongchang in February and have fought actively for women’s rights in the sport, which she among other things, aired in the Newspaper in February.
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