Overview
- Dropkin and Thiesse will be the first Team USA athletes to compete in Italy, facing Norway on Feb. 5 at 10:05 a.m. local time, a day before the opening ceremony.
- They enter as 2023 world champions and say the goal is a podium finish, stressing the need to bring their best to every game.
- The duo describe a complementary partnership of calm precision and fiery energy that they believe elevates performance under pressure.
- Dropkin makes his Olympic debut, while Thiesse previously traveled to the 2018 Games as the U.S. women's alternate.
- Beyond mixed doubles, the young men's Team Casper qualified through the Olympic Qualification Event and begins Feb. 11 with 54-year-old alternate Rich Ruohonen potentially becoming the oldest American Winter Olympian if he plays, and the women open Feb. 12 seeking the program's first Olympic medal.