Three married couples competing in mixed doubles curling at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics have turned their relationships into a competitive advantage, using heated exchanges on the ice and cooling-off routines afterwards to manage the pressures of elite sport.
Norway's Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten, bronze medallists at PyeongChang in 2018 and silver medallists at Beijing in 2022, have developed what they call the "hot wash" — a post-match ritual where they each express one emotion before separating for half an hour.
