It is hard to think that it was only 26 years ago that women’s ice hockey was part of the Winter Olympics for the first time. The 1998 Nagano games in Japan saw it added for the first time with only six teams participating with the United States and Canada dominating the tournament which was played in February of that year.
The countdown to the 2024 Olympics in Paris is under six months and the athletes will be praying that the rest of their preparation goes smoothly as even the smallest setback at this stage could be the difference between a gold medal and leaving the French capital empty-handed.
Santiago, Chile was the host city for the 2023 Pan American Games where Team Canada had their second best medal haul for a games not held in Canada. A total of 46 gold, 55 silver and 63 bronze combined for 164 total medals, third only to the total volume of medals won by the USA and Brazil.
