February 23, 2018 (PyeongChang, South Korea) – Check out these great post-race photos following the incredible gold medal victory by Jessie Diggins (Afton, Minn.) and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, Alaska) who won the women’s Team Sprint to claim gold and bring home the USA’s first-ever women’s Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.

It was dream come true for the dynamic duo who also won gold at the Nordic World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, back in 2013. The world-class teammates made history again only this time on the Olympic stage for a stunning legacy for Team USA. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” said one observer.

American Bill Koch captured the USA’s first Olympic medal winning silver in the men’s 30km Classic at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria that stunned the world. Marty Hall, the Team USA head coach at those Games, formed and coached the first U.S. women’s team back in 1969 with early pioneers like Martha Rockwell, Alison Owen, and Trina Hosmer.