In final Olympic race, Jessie Diggins says goodbye her way, with an all-out effort

TESERO, Italy — The race marshal has just cried out his five-minute warning, but Jessie Diggins appears lost to it all. There is a ritual to these moments, to this preparation, and in her final Olympic appearance, the USA’s most decorated cross-country skier of all time will remain unhurried. Her universe is defined by the particulars. She still wears a hefty plaster on her ribs, the blueing medal of a crash that took place just two kilometers into her Olympics on the opening Saturday. “It’s hon