Overview
- Fans packed Allianz Field in St. Paul Sunday for a send-off that drew more than 2,000 people, many wearing her trademark glitter.
- She leaves competition fresh off a bronze at the Milan Winter Games, eight years after her viral 2018 Olympic gold finish with Kikkan Randall.
- Her final race in March in Lake Placid closed a season in which she clinched her fourth overall World Cup title.
- Across a career that began in 2011, she tallied 33 World Cup wins, two world championships and four Olympic medals, the most by a U.S. cross-country skier.
- At the celebration she discussed recovering from an eating disorder, credited Minnesota’s Emily Program for care, and said she plans more public speaking and advocacy.