June 22, 2018 – US Olympic gold cross-country ski medalist, Jesse Diggins, will appear in the latest edition of ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue, which will be released digitally on June 25.

Along with teammate Kikkan Randall, the Minnesota native became the first Americans to win an Olympic gold medal as the duo won the women’s team sprint at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, China earlier this year.

The 26-year-old Diggins will appear in the issue alongside other prominent athletes such as soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, golfer Greg Norman and legendary football player Jerry Rice as well as another Minnesotan, the NBA’s Karl Anthony-Towns.

The ESPN Body issue debuted in 2009, but has not featured a cross-country ski athlete until Diggins.

According to Diggins “Thanks for reaching out. I have a blog post coming soon (on the 25th, when the photos come out) that will explain the reason I did the shoot, and in the meantime my instagram post gives a shorter explanation.”

For this, the tenth anniversary edition, ESPN is also releasing a digital photo archive of every athlete to have appeared here.

Read more in the Stillwater Patch here and the Star Tribune here.