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Olympics Flashback: "Here comes Diggins! Here comes Diggins!!"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published March 1, 2018 at 1:13 PM CST

Four years before he would set the Twitter-sphere alight with his calling of the 2018 Olympic cross-country skiing finish (‘Here comes Diggins!’ Finish of Olympic cross-country skiing enthralls viewers) and two days after being lauded for his "exploding-brain-matter level of enthusiasm" in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi (Skiathlon announcer emerges as the star of the Sochi Olympics), a remarkably calm and collected Chad Salmela talked about being a biathlete and how biathlon finally wangled it's way into the Olympics.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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