For the first time in more than 20 years, the U.S. hosted the World Cup ski race and Minnesotans were lucky enough to have a front-row view at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis.

“It was like this wall of noise,” Afton native Jessie Diggins, who took fourth place, said of the crowd Saturday. “It was the loudest I have ever heard it on a course in my life,” she said.

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