{"id":69587,"date":"2026-03-20T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jessie-diggins-seals-extraordinary-fourth-world-cup-overall-title-before-retirement-on-home-snow\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:02","slug":"jessie-diggins-seals-extraordinary-fourth-world-cup-overall-title-before-retirement-on-home-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jessie-diggins-seals-extraordinary-fourth-world-cup-overall-title-before-retirement-on-home-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Diggins seals extraordinary fourth World Cup overall title before retirement on home snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Diggins, 34, clinches fourth World Cup overall title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>American seals rare feat in Lake Placid season finale<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Minnesota-born star to retire after dominant season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No woman from outside Europe had ever captured the cross-country skiing World Cup overall title until Jessie Diggins in 2021. Now she\u2019s won it four times.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota-born star clinched yet another crystal globe in the twilight of her glittering career on Friday, securing the season crown with a fifth-place finish in the 10km classic at the World Cup finals in Lake Placid, New York. Diggins made it a mathematical certainty with two races remaining in the season-ending weekend, giving her a third consecutive overall title and fourth in total.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/20\/jessie-diggins-fourth-world-cup-title-retirement-lake-placid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diggins, 34, clinches fourth World Cup overall title American seals rare feat in Lake Placid season finale Minnesota-born star to retire after dominant season No woman from outside Europe had ever captured the cross-country skiing World Cup overall title until Jessie Diggins in 2021. Now she\u2019s won it four times. The Minnesota-born star clinched yet &#8230; <a title=\"Jessie Diggins seals extraordinary fourth World Cup overall title before retirement on home snow\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/jessie-diggins-seals-extraordinary-fourth-world-cup-overall-title-before-retirement-on-home-snow\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jessie Diggins seals extraordinary fourth World Cup overall title before retirement on home snow\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}