Curling to me is everything.
Curling is definitely life.
And all business, Anna Hasselborg.
Anna Hasselborg.
Without a team in curling, you're nothing.
Team Hasselborg is unique.
We are more than friends, we are family
and we make each other stronger.
Being a mom and going to the Olympics with that,
I think I'm on a good way to find the perfect balance.
They're team of superstars in curling.
And we are ready to defend the gold.
I grew up pretty much in downtown Stockholm.
It was a very safe environment.
My childhood was very happy.
We have a strong bond in our family.
One memory that comes to my mind now
is that she wrote a note once saying,
"I'm out. Will be back later."
And I think that's sort of what she was like
when she was in her
young eight, nine, 10-ish years.
Let's go have fun!
So my parents actually met through curling,
and so I was basically born in a curling rink.
Sundbyberg is my home club and that is where
I first got in contact with curling.
Both my son and Anna
were just with us at curling.
I think we put Anna on a rock once.
We crossed her legs around the handles and we pushed her.
She can't have been more than a year old.
A year and a half or something like that.
So she's been around.
She's been around 'all the time, actually.
And I remember her being really, really angry,
when things didn't go her way.
She was quite small as well.
So there was this pretty small angry girl
screaming and throwing rocks and brooms.
I watched my dad have a lot of success
and I watched my brother have a lot of success.
And it's just been something that I always wanted to do.
I've been with them,
with Anna and her team for quite many years actually.
I'm very thankful for where I am today.
Because of them and the support
and the push that they have given me.
So curling is basically chess on ice.
But the big difference is that when you play chess,
you always know that you will succeed with your move.
In curling you won't.
It's a very old sport started in Scotland
and was played on lakes.
The main goal is to have the most rocks
closest to the middle.
What makes her stand out as a skipper
is her way of approaching the game
from a tactical point of view.
My job is to decide the game
that we want to play.
I'm the master of making sure
that we're following our game plan
and then I throw the last two shots.
She can really finish the ends.
She has good control of her nerves.
And she's great when she has to be great.
And I think that's really important.
I understood that we can win
on the big stage in 2010 when we won the World Juniors.
We won the final against a very strong Canadian team
and that was huge for us.
Actually three of the team that are playing now,
Sara and Agnes and Anna
were already playing together in 2010 actually.
And I think also that tournament
actually made them want to play together again.
Agnes and I have been teammates since we were small children.
We met here on the curling ice.
She was at the Olympics in 2014 as an alternate
and she sent me this super touristy,
pretty ugly postcard from Russia.
And she says, "Next time I'm here with you, my sister!"
We started to build a new team with Sara McManus
and Sofia Mabergs.
They are four strong individuals in Team Hasselborg.
But they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in a way.
It felt like something clicked, you know?
We have so much respect for each other
and the support that we give each other,
I think that is a big part
of why we have succeeded in the past
and why we will succeed in the future too.
Early on, they said that our goal is the Olympics 2018,
and they really worked hard to get there.
As we welcome the two teams then.
So we came in as being ranked number three in the world.
So we knew that we could medal. That was the big goal.
And all business, Anna Hasselborg.
Eventually, they started winning and winning and winning
and it felt really good.
It felt really, really good.
This just crowns it all.
This team has been awesome.
And then they had the two losses.
I called home to my brother.
He really gets me.
And when I'm down after a loss
or if I get too much in my own head,
he is the person that can drag me out of that.
Hasselborg comes back.
They came out strong and had good games off the bat.
To have a daughter at the Olympics
playing for Sweden, going for gold.
That's surreal.
Now she's ready to grab the gold.
The precision is all there.
It was almost like I was shocked
because I was so much in the moment,
I didn't even realize we won
until they shook our hands and the gold was ours.
A huge feeling of being proud.
We share DNA.
It almost felt like we're in this together.
Team Sweden deserve this Olympic gold.
In 2020 my daughter Mira was born
and that obviously tops everything
that I've ever experienced in my life before.
It's so cool to have a mini person
that you get to take on life with.
She's great as a mother.
She's done a great job for the first year.
She was with Mira and trained with her.
Motherhood suits her, I guess.
Whenever I had a doubt
they just encouraged me to keep going.
And encouraged me that you can have both.
You can still have a super competitive sports career
and you can have a child too.
I think first the motivation was very high.
I really wanted to get back in the same physical form
that I was before.
I feel that coming into this season
we worked so hard and we were so dedicated
towards the goal in February.
I hope that she will go there and enjoy what she's doing.
It's not for everyone to be able
to get to the Olympics twice.
Absolutely, back-to-back gold is possible.
The field is so tough, so I can't say that you're
guaranteed a medal at the Olympics.
You can never say that.
I would say that nine nations could actually medal.
It's not the Europeans, it's not the Worlds,
it's the Olympics.