Better Know A Winter Olympics Sport: Women’s Hockey, A Game Not Just For The Boys

While men’s ice hockey will take most of the spotlight during the Olympic Games, the women will also have their spot on center ice. This will be the fourth Winter Games that includes women’s hockey, and so far the theme for the first three tournaments was the domination of Canada and the United States. Canada has won the last two Olympic gold medals and earned silver in 1998, while the US has one gold, one silver and a bronze. These two teams will not have a chance to face off against each other until the semifinals due to the fact that they are in separate groups.

What It Is: The women’s hockey tournament consists of two groups of four teams each that will play in the same round robin format as the men will.