46 Siblings Sets Competing During 2018 Winter Olympics

From thisisinsider.com, February 08, 2018
Reported by Caroline Praderio

Marissa Brandt - Team Korea, & Hannah Brandt - Team USA

Hannah Brandt and her adopted sister Marissa grew up playing hockey in Minnesota. Now they're skating for their home countries in the Winter Olympics.

Marissa, who was born in South Korea but adopted at 4 months old, was invited to join the South Korean women's national team back in 2015, Sports Illustrated reported. Hannah was named to the US women's team in January of this year, according to Team USA's website.

"You can't really script something like this," Hannah said in a recent interview with CNN.

Matt and Becca Hamilot, Team USA

According to Team USA, the Hamilton siblings will be the first American team to compete in mixed doubles curling, a new event debuting at the Pyeongchang Olympics. They're also on the US men's and women's curling teams.

They see their sibling relationship as a strength in their sport.

"We're both a little less timid around each other," Matt said in an interview with USA Today last year. "Some of these teams that are newish, they kind of have that honeymoon phase where they don't want to yell at their partner or criticize or anything, walking on eggshells ... We're way past that."

Logan and Reese Hanneman, Team USA

"We have been competing against each other, in one sport or another, for our entire lives, and the brotherly competition and cooperation has undoubtedly propelled us to this point," Reese, the older of the two brothers, said in an interview with Alaska newspaper The Daily News-Miner.

Pyeongchang is the first Olympics for both brothers.

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