When the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, come around on Feb. 8, you might be waiting for the skiing and figure-skating events, but we're into curling. We've spent hours enthralled and almost hypnotized by the sport during past Olympics, but if we're being honest, we're not totally sure of the rules or even where the sport originated. We looked into it, and its history is nothing short of interesting. Here's everything you need to know about curling, dubbed "the roaring game," just in time for the PyeongChang games. Curling is a team sport played on a rectangular sheet of ice with matches played by two teams of four. Curling is played with two types of brooms, either a brush, or "push broom," or a corn/straw/Canadian broom. They are used to push large, dense granite rocks weighing 44 pounds each, called curling rocks or stones and made of rare granite extracted from the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig. Curling is known as "the roaring game" because of the loud rumbling sound the stones make when moving across the ice. The sport is played on a 42.07-meter-long and 4.28-meter-wide rink with a target or house (those blue and red circles on the ice) on either end. The rink's surface consists of artificially created ice sprinkled with water droplets meant to freeze into small drops on the surface. This is called "pebbled ice" and is meant to aid in the stone's grip for more consistent curling. The object of a curling game is for each team to get their stones as close to the center of the circles as possible to score more points than the opponent, using sweeping brooms to aid the speed of each stone. Players wear special curling shoes meant to grip the ice well. Curling first originated in the 16th century in Scotland with games first played in the Winter on frozen ponds and lochs. The first curling stones, dating back as far as 1511, came from the Scottish regions of Stirling and Perth, and in the 1600s, players began using stones with handles. Curling made its Olympic debut with men's teams at the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France, in 1924. It was actually then dropped from forthcoming Winter Games, instead serving as a demonstration sport staged at the games from 1936 to 1992. Curling didn't make a return to the Olympics until the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, at which both men's and women's teams participated. It's been a little more than a week since the epic celebrations, tears and heart-stopping shots that propelled Rachel Homan, Kevin Koe and their respective teammates to the Olympics. Four years of sacrifice and work paid off. So what's the first thing many of them did after it was over? They left the icy rink for the warm beach."We're not calling it a honeymoon," Homan laughed. "The wedding happened a year ago. We're just taking a vacation."While she won't call it a honeymoon, it really is. Homan and her husband never took the time to kick back and enjoy married life after their wedding a year ago because the Olympic pursuit was the priority. With that taken care of, they're finally taking a break. But Homan isn't the only one heading south for some heat. Third, Emma Miskew, left for Jamaica and skip Kevin Koe took his family to Mexico. Others have headed back to their home cities to spend time over the holidays with family and friends.

They're breathing easy again for the first time in a while, at least for a few days.  But before any of them could make their great escape, Curling Canada officials were ready and waiting for the two winning teams — inundating them with information before they left Ottawa.Team Canada's two Olympic curling teams barely had time to celebrate before they were whisked away to an Ottawa hotel for two intense days of information sharing, planning and scheduling. In the eyes of Curling Canada, while it's great to finally have clarity on what two teams are representing Canada at the Games, the whole new challenge of making sure Homan and Koe are best prepared is the No. 1 priority. When curling was first introduced back into the Olympic program in 1998 there was no blueprint on how to prepare the teams for the Games. It was less about the game itself and everything outside of it, from where to stay, what to eat and how to get family and friends to the event. Now all these years later there's a team behind the curling teams working tirelessly to mobilize into action when the Olympic squads are crowned."Their lives change," Rick Lang said. "It's a fun and exciting time for all of them but we want them to be prepared."Lang is one of the high-performance coaches for Team Canada. He's no stranger to winning. Lang has won three Briers and two world championships. Now it's his job to help Canada win medals at the Olympics, with the emphasis on gold. "We have to medal. We don't soften that for the teams. We talk about it out loud. We say let's make it gold and I think that's the best way to go about it," Lang said. Nolan Theissen is also a part of the Curling Canada team helping to make the preparation into the Olympics as smooth as possible. Theissen also has a lengthy curling resume including three Brier titles and a world championship. He's a team consultant, which basically means he's on call for the athletes around the clock should they have any questions. "I'm just there for the athletes," he said. "We need to try and stay ahead because other countries aren't sitting there saying 'we're playing for silver'. They want gold. We want gold."This robust Curling Canada team signals just how serious this country is about capturing gold at the Games. And it's not the only thing they're applying to get an edge.There's a major shift happening in the sporting world when it comes to data and statistics. In many sports, most notably in baseball (see Moneyball), teams are doing deep dives into the numbers to get an edge on their opponents. Now it's hitting the curling world. During the Olympic trials in Ottawa, high above the Canadian Tire Centre, members of SAS and Canadian Tire's analytics teams were tracking every rock thrown by every player on the ice for every game. It's a joint initiative between the Canadian Olympic Committee, SAS and Canadian Tire. It's a partnership that was signed about a year ago. SAS is an analytics software company that tracks more things the human brain can comprehend and then highlights it in an easily digestible way."It's another weapon in the arsenal of tools that a coach can use to help the athletes," Karl Quon said. "And why wouldn't you want a powerhouse advantage like that?"Quon is technical consulting manager for SAS. He said the world of athletics is finally starting to realize how much of an edge it can give teams."If you're not doing it, your competitor is," he said. "We try and make analytics appealing for the masses and teams: cart and graphics. Collect billions of data points and present it in an easy to use interface."Canadian Tire analyst Mike Heenan was perched in front of two computers for hours a day tracking in-turns, out-turns, takeouts, draws, all of it."I've heard the coaches are fairly receptive to the new information. If it wins more games they're open to that."Now all of those numbers are being presented to Team Homan and Team Koe as they prepare for the Olympics."Of course the data and the numbers are important but it comes down to passion," Lang said. "The data is good. But we want our Olympians to combine it with passion."The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang is only 50 days away, and Korea has high hopes of achieving its best result ever.

The host country aims to finish fourth by winning eight gold, four silver, and eight bronze medals. Its best performance at a Winter Olympics to date was in Vancouver in 2010, finishing fifth with six gold, six silver and two bronze medals. Korea finished 13th overall in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi with three gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Korea's strongest discipline is short track speed skating, which accounts for 42 of its 53 cumulative winter Olympic medals. Choi Min-jeong on the women's team is a leading hopeful with a high chance of winning multiple medals. What sets her apart from other Korean short trackers is that she ranks with the world's top rivals in the 500-m sprint as well as in mid- and long-distance races. Shim Suk-hee, who won one gold, one silver and one bronze at Sochi, will likely compete with Choi for most medals. The men's short-track team, which went medalless at Sochi, is desperately waiting for a chance to redeem themselves at home. This is copyrighted material owned by Digital Chosun Inc. No part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission.In speed skating, Korea has high hopes for Lee Seung-hoon, who won a gold in the men's 10,000 m and silver in the 5,000 m at Vancouver and a silver in team pursuit at Sochi. He now aims to win gold in mass start, which makes its Olympic debut at Pyeongchang. Kim Bo-reum is considered to be a medal contender in women's mass start. Lee Sang-hwa, two-time Olympic champion in women's 500-m speed skating, will have a tough time competing with Nao Kodaira of Japan, who has been absolutely dominating the discipline in recent seasons. Outside the skating arena, Yun Sung-bin is currently world No. 1 in men's skeleton. Alpine snowboarder Lee Sang-ho is looking for Korea's first ever medal on snow in parallel giant slalom, and the women's curling team and two-man bobsleigh team also have a chance at an Olympic medal. This is copyrighted material owned by Digital Chosun Inc. No part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. From a 17-year-old snowboarding star to a gold-medal-hungry women’s ice hockey team, Team USA’s athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are looking to make a mark. The official roster for Team USA will not be finalized until weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics start Feb. 9, but the first competitors in the 15 Winter Olympic sports have already been chosen — and they each bring a unique story to the games. Maame Biney is a 17-year-old who already made history as the first black woman to qualify for Team USA’s short track speedskating team. Making his return in 2018, Gus Kenworthy is a freestyle skiing star who could become the first openly gay male athlete to compete at a Winter Games. And Chloe Kim is a 17-year-old snowboarding phenom who is the favorite to win gold in the sport for Team USA.Reigning Olympic gold medalist and overall world champion Mikaela Shiffrin is poised for another triumphant alpine skiing run during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. When she was just 18, Shiffrin became the youngest athlete ever to win an Olympic gold in the Winter Olympic sport of slalom — an event that involves skiing downhill between poles and gates — a gold medal she’s trying to earn yet again at age 22.

Shiffrin has the second-most World Cup victories of any U.S. female skier — just behind Lindsey Vonn, who is aiming to make a return to the Olympic podium in 2018. Injuries have plagued Vonn in recent years, but the veteran skier earned her first World Cup win of the season in December — just months away from Pyeongchang.Three-time Olympian Lowell Bailey is trying to secure Team USA’s first-ever Olympic biathlon medal in Pyeongchang.That will be a leap for the athlete, who earned Team USA’s highest ever finish in the Winter Olympic sport with eighth place in the men’s 20-kilometer during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. But in 2017, Bailey won the U.S.’s first world championship gold medal. And in Pyeongchang, Bailey hopes to once again make history. He was the first U.S. athlete to officially qualify for the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics. On the women’s side of the Winter Olympic sport, Susan Dunklee is one to watch. The 2014 Olympian earned a silver medal in the mass start at the world championships in 2017 in Austria.Elana Meyers Taylor is hoping to lead the bobsleigh women’s team in 2018 by besting her silver from Sochi. Meyers Taylor was the first American woman to ever win a bobsled world championship in 2015.The two-time Olympic medalist has also advanced gender equality in the sport. She has competed in the 4-man event with three male brakemen, a first for the Winter Olympic sport that had required women to race only two-person sleds. The men’s side lost Olympic great Steven Holcomb, who died in 2017. The multiple-Olympic medalist made history in the Winter Olympic sport in 2010 when he won the U.S. its first gold in the 4-man bobsled event since 1948.The women’s cross-country skiing team has made significant strides in recent years, with its best athletes scoring medals and making the podium in international competitions.World champion Jessie Diggins is leading the Winter Olympics team into Pyeongchang after landing fifth in this season’s world cup standings, according to Team USA’s website. Teammate Kikkan Randall won a world championship medal in the sprint just after giving birth to her first child, and Sadie Bjornsen began her world cup season with a second-place finish in November in Finland. While the U.S. trails behind European nations in cross-country skiing, Americans have improved in recent international competitions. In February 2017, Diggins and Randall made history when they earned silver and bronze medals in the world championship sprints.Team USA is hoping to return to the podium after a more-than-decade-long curling drought. Four-time Olympian John Shuster will be the skip for the Winter Olympics team once again; he was on the 2006 team that won Team USA’s historic bronze medal. His 2006 teammate Joe Polo will also compete in Pyeongchang.The U.S. has an extra chance to earn a curling medal this year, with the addition of the new mixed doubles curling event. In December, siblings Becca and Matt Hamilton secured their spot to represent the U.S. in the new event. They bested Shuster and Cory Christensen for the spot, as well as Polo and Tabitha Peterson, who had won bronze at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Championship.A rising figure skating star, Nathan Chen was the first U.S. man in eight years to win the ISU Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan — the last big-ticket international competition before the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. He beat Japan’s Shoma Uno by less than 1 point.As the 2017 Four Continents champion and U.S. champion, Chen also beat reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in competition earlier this year (Hanyu is now struggling with an ankle injury).

Chen has excited Team USA fans who are hoping for a men’s singles medal this year.  Other figure skaters to watch: Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani. They are 2017 world bronze medalists and two-time U.S. champions in ice dance hoping to follow Meryl Davis and Charlie White’s historic gold in Sochi in 2014.The halfpipe and slopestyle skiing events, a sport new to the Winter Olympics in 2014, will have a number of Team USA athletes to watch — particularly Gus Kenworthy, who earned silver in 2014’s slopestyle. Kenworthy has landed on the podium for the halfpipe in international competition as well, including a halfpipe win during his 2015-16 season at the U.S. Grand Prix.Kenworthy’s life off the slopes has also broken new ground. He came out in 2015, and could become the first openly gay male athlete to compete in a Winter Olympic Games. Also at the Pyeonchang games, Olympic champions Maddie Bowman and Joss Christensen are both hoping to defend their titles from 2014.The U.S. women’s national ice hockey team is gearing up for another intense match against rival Canada. And with professional men’s players out of the picture this year because the NHL barred players from competing in the Winter Olympic sport, the women’s team is the center of attention.Team USA won silver in Sochi in 2014 after a 3-2 overtime loss to Canada. But the U.S. is looking to make a comeback against its northern neighbor this time around. Recent international matches have gone back and forth between the U.S. and Canada, with the U.S. posting a 5-2 win against Canada on Oct. 22, and a 1-5 loss just three days later on Oct. 25. Brianna Decker, currently Team USA’s top scorer, recently told NBC Sports that success in Pyeonchang means “a gold medal.” As for Team USA’s rivalry with Canada, Decker says, “Though some of us may be friends off the ice, we are not friends on the ice.”Members of Team USA’s men’s and women’s long track speed skating teams aim to get on the podium in 2018. Brittany Bowe is making a comeback in the Winter Olympic sport after suffering a concussion that kept her off the ice for months. She holds the world record in the women’s 1,000 meter and earned bronze in competition this year — a title that boosted her confidence following her injury, she told NBC Olympics in October.This Winter Olympic sport has long been a U.S. stronghold in the Winter Games, with returning athletes including four-time Olympic medalist Shani Davis, Olympic bronze medalist Mitch Whitmmore and 2016-17 Grand World Cup champion Heather Bergsma. But skaters failed to win any medals in 2014 amid controversies over new uniforms and questionable training decisions.Luge athletes for Team USA have high goals going into the 2018 Winter Olympics — and standout Erin Hamlin may lead them there.The three-time Olympian won the U.S. its first medal ever for singles luge with her 2014 bronze, and she hopes to stand a little higher on the podium in 2018. Hamlin is a two-time world champion, including winning the title in the 2017 spring race at the world championships.“I do think the U.S. can win gold,” Hamlin recently said. “In what, I’m not sure, but in something though.”The 10-person luge team also includes Tucker West, who at age 18 was the youngest luger to qualify for the Olympics in 2014.Bryan and Taylor Fletcher of Steamboat Springs, Colo., are two dominant figures in the Winter Olympic sport for Team USA. The brothers are both former Olympians and were on the U.S.’s 2013 world championship team, which won the bronze medal.Bryan, the elder brother, brought in four top-15 finishes in international competition a year ago, according Team USA. The nordic combined athlete overcame cancer as a child — a difficult time during which he found happiness in ski jumping. Taylor competed in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and, among the events within nordic combined, is best at cross-country skiing. Team USA faces a difficult challenge this year, however. New scoring guidelines for this Winter Olympic sport now stress the jumping portion of the event — which is not Team USA’s strong suit.World record holder and Olympics medalist J.R. Celski will lead the U.S. men’s team for short track speed skating in Pyeongchang. The team includes John-Henry Krueger, who has medaled in international competition. Aaron Tran, a 16-year-old, also qualified to compete for Team USA, securing his spot after placing second behind Krueger in the men’s 500m at the Olympic Team Trials in December.On the women’s side, 17-year-old Maame Biney already made history in December as the first black woman to qualify for the short track speed skating U.S. Olympic Team. She won bronze in the women’s 500m at the 2016-17 Short Track Junior World Championship.Matthew Antoine slides back into Olympic competition after earning bronze in Sochi in 2014 and completing several years of successful international appearances. The Wisconsin-based athlete is looking to get another medal in the Winter Olympic sport this time around. He may be joined by contenders John Daly, who took a break from the sport after Sochi, and Nathan Crumpton, who is hoping to make his first Olympic appearance.With a successful 2015-16 season, Annie O’Shea became the fastest of the women’s team and is poised to be one to watch in Pyeongchang. Olympian Katie Uhlaender is also trying to best her fourth-place finish in Sochi.Though she has been plagued with injuries in recent years, 2013 world champion Sarah Hendrickson is the only member of the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team in ski jumping returning in 2018. She placed 21st in Sochi after she tore her MCL and ACL just months beforehand.But, if she’s healthy, Team USA anticipates that Hendrickson could be a medal contender in Pyeongchang. In a blog post on Team USA’s website, Hendrickson said her training over the summer went well. “There are strengths you gain after fighting so many challenges – the positivity of just being me and the appreciation of having the opportunity to going to an Olympics feel like enough,” she wrote.

Women’s Olympic ski jumping only just debuted in Sochi in 2014.Olympic medalists including Shaun White have dominated this Winter Olympics sport for Team USA in the past, but one young standout is expected to leave a mark this year.Chloe Kim, 17, easily secured her spot on Team USA in December. The California-based snowboarder was the first woman to land back-to-back 1080s in a competition last year and sits at the top of world rankings for the sport. She’s a favorite to win gold in the halfpipe event in Pyeongchang. Earlier this year, TIME named Kim one of the 30 Most Influential Teens in 2017.“It’ll be a good experience to go through such a crazy event with my family,” Kim told TIME. “But at the same time, I’m very worried, ’cause it’s the freaking Olympics. I want to do really good. I’ve got to nail it.”The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea are right around the corner! That means it's time to watch sports you might not have seen in four years. To help you feel at least a little more informed—either to impress your friends or fake your way through a conversation with an actual expert—SI will be providing rookie's guides to each of the 15 sports. These will be published daily, Monday through Friday, from December 4-22. For those of you who did not watch the World Curling Championships the last three years, but want to catch the action on the curling sheet at PyeongChang, South Korea, here is is a simple guide to give you all the information you will need to enjoy Olympic curling in 2018.There's evidence that people have been curling since the 1500s, but it did not become an official Olympic sport until 1998. Although there was an outdoor event in the 1924 Games that was retroactively added to the record books in 2002, and it was also a demonstration sport in the 1992 Olympics (meaning they played to promote it, but it was not an official sport). Curling traditionally features a men's and women's competition where teams of four battle it out for the top spot. This year a mixed doubles competition was also added. Although the four-on-four team and two-on-two mixed doubles variations of curling are similar, there are some major differences that make the games distinct from each other. All versions of Olympic curling are played on a curling sheet, a 138 foot by 14 foot surface made out of artificially created ice, with water droplets added to create bumps called pebbled ice, which allow for more consistent curling. The objective is to throw the curling stone, a 42-pound piece of polished granite, and have it land as close to the center of the house as possible.The house is the the 12-foot wide set of concentric rings wrapped around the center, or the button. There is a house on each end of the sheet, along with a set of lines and markers that are used for different aspects of the game. There is the hack, which is the starting point of each throw and one is set up 12 feet behind each button. Players throw the stone to the button furthest from them.They leave the hack to start their delivery and they must release the stone before it starts to cross the hogline, which is 21 feet in front of the button and represents the start of the free guard zone on the other end of the sheet. The free guard zone runs from the hogline to the teeline, and it is the place on the sheet where stones are left in play even if they did not reach the house. The teeline is the line that runs through the button and is essentially perpendicular to the route taken by the stone.If a stone fails to reach the the free guard zone, it is taken out of play. There is also the backline, which starts behind the teeline right at the edge of the house.Each team alternates in throwing its eight stones, trying to get as close to the button as possible. When all 16 stones have been played, it is the conclusion of the end, and the team that scores is the team with the stone closest to the button. A team is awarded one point for each stone it has closer to the button than the opponent's closest stone. Only stones that are in the house can score points. The throwing aspect is a bit like shuffleboard, but the scoring is quite different since only one team can score in each end.

The team that fails to score in an end is given the hammer, or the last throw, in the next end. If neither team scores it is called a blank end, and the same team keeps the hammer into the next end.When the stone is tossed toward the house, sweepers use brooms to help clear ice to allow the stone to continue sliding down the sheet at a desired trajectory. While three players are are on one end of the curling sheet directly affecting the throw and the stone's trajectory, the fourth member is behind the button on the other end assisting with strategy, like how fast to throw the stone or where to try and place it on the sheet. The teammate in the back is usually the skip, and this player is like the captain of the team. Teammates will generally yell at each other to communicate strategy such as where or how fast to sweep and just how fast the stone is traveling.Until four stones have been thrown, stones in the free guard zone are left in play. If one of the stones not in the house is moved by the opposing team's stone, it is put back to where it was, and the opposition's stone that touched it is out of play. If a stone is touched by a broom or a player, that is called burning a stone, and it is also taken out of play.vAfter 10 ends, the team with the most points is the winner. If the score is tied, extra ends are played until one team takes the lead. In mixed doubles curling however, only five stones are thrown. Each team has the same person throw the first and last stone of each end, with the other team member throwing the middle three. Additionally, two stones start off in play for each team. One right by the button and another of the opposing team at the center line between the button and the hog line. The option to decide which team's stone starts in which position is decided by the team that did not score in the last round, and the hammer is given to the team whose stone is placed in the house. Each team also gets one power play, where the team with the hammer can slightly adjust the positioning of the stones so they are not in the center of play, but that cannot happen during extra ends. Expect each team to use its power play during a game because it gives teams a good chance to score three or four points in an end. The key for each team will be if it can use its power play at the most advantageous time, whether that's saving it for the final end to steal a close game or using it to create big lead earlier in the contest.The strategy of curling starts from the second the coin is flipped and the teams decide who gets the hammer first. Having the hammer is advantageous because with the last shot you can either set yourself up for a chance to secure points in the end or you at least have one last chance to stop your opponent from scoring. If a team has the hammer and is in position to score only one point for the end, that team might try to clear out all of the stones in the house with the hammer to make it a blank end. The team would maintain the hammer and would now have a chance to score more than one point in an end.When a team is in position to score for an end, it may try to establish guard stones to prevent the opposition from getting close to the button or make it harder for the opposition to remove stones from the house. Teams will try to avoid guard stones by throwing the stone with a lot of curve, or curl, on it. The stone will curl outward if the thrower twists their palm away from their body when they release it on the throw. The stone will go inward if the thrower twists their palm toward their body on the release.This is a shot that protects the house and makes it harder for your opponent to land one of their stones in scoring position. Olympic play is pretty simple. There is a round robin set of play where the 10 teams involved play each other once. Then the top four teams play in the semifinals, with the winners of those games playing for the gold medal and the losers playing for the bronze.

The teams are decided based off a scoring system involving performance at the 2016 and 2017 World Curling Championships. Of the 10 teams participating, seven are chosen based off the scoring system, two are picked at a pre-Olympic qualifier and the last spot is given to the host nation. For mixed doubles, only the top seven teams from the qualifying scoring system and the host nation will participate.Competition will start the day before the Opening Ceremony with mixed doubles and competition will end during the last day of the games with the women's final. The men's final will take place the day before the women's final. You are sliding on ice while trying to throw a 42-pound granite stone more than 100 feet. Or, you are trying to sweep ice while you slide along with the granite stone, trying to make sure it stops exactly where you want it. You are going to need lots of balance whether you are throwing or sweeping, and throwing is going to require a strong core and good leg strength. You are shooting yourself and an additional 42 pounds off one leg while your other is balancing you on ice as you're in an awkward squat-like position.No, you will not be amazing at curling, even if you had a whole week to train for it. Don't take my word for it, take it from American curler Phill Drobnick who told Entertainment Weekly just how hard it is to become a professional curler. This video featuring the 2010 U.S. Olympic curling team will show you just how difficult it is and how much time it takes to become a good curler.If you still think you could do it no problem, check out this video from The Wall Street Journal. Expect to see Canada in the mix in men's, women's and mixed doubles competition. In the 2017 World Curling Championships, Canada took home the top prize for men's and women's and finished second in mixed doubles. Additionally, the men's and women's teams are the reigning Olympic gold medal winners. The men's team has won the gold three straight times and won silver in the two competitions prior. The women's team's first gold medal came in 1998, and it took silver in 2010 and won bronze in 2002 and 2006. When it comes to men's curling, Canadian Kevin Martin is tied with Torger Nergaard and Flemming Davanger of Norway as the only men to win multiple medals at the Olympics, with each winning one gold and one silver medal. For the women, the five members of the Swedish team that won the gold medal in 2006 and 2010 are the only women to win two medals at the Olympics.In men's competition, Sweden, the United States, Japan and Switzerland rounded out the top five in qualifying points, with Canada claiming the top spot. The Canadian women also had the top spot in qualifying points with Russia, Switzerland, Great Britain and the Untied States filling in the rest of the top five. For mixed doubles, China was the top qualifier and Canada, Russia, Switzerland and the Untied States were the rest of the top five.

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