Question

At an Olympic Games in this year, colour commentator Chad Salmela yelled “Here comes Diggins!...Yes! Yes! Gold!” as Diggins won her first Olympic medal. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this year in which Diggins passed Stina Nilsson on the Klaebo-bakken in a race that went down to the wire. In another Olympic race in this year, Ester Ledecká won a surprise gold medal by one hundredth of a second.
ANSWER: 2018
[10e] Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won gold in 2018 for this sport’s team sprint. This winter sport’s title implements are skinnier than in a downhill sport named for the same objects.
ANSWER: cross-country skiing [prompt on Nordic skiing]
[10m] Cross-country skiing is combined with this sport in the Nordic Combined event. The Gundersen method uses the distance covered in this sport to give athletes time advantages before cross-country skiing.
ANSWER: ski jumping
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