Fun facts about Canada's Winter Olympic team

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With the opening ceremony exactly one week away and some of its athletes already in Beijing, Canada today presented its full list of 215 competitors for the Winter Olympics. It's slightly smaller than Canada's teams for the last two Winter Games, but still the third-largest ever. With 109 men and 106 women, the Canadian Olympic Committee says this is the most gender-balanced squad it has ever sent to a Winter Games.

Here are some more fun facts about the team:

*The oldest woman and the oldest man are both curlers. Jennifer Jones, 47, is going for her second gold medal in the women's event, while John Morris, 43, tries to repeat as mixed doubles champ.

*The youngest athlete is 16-year-old halfpipe snowboarder Brooke D'Hondt. She was just shy of her first birthday when three of her current teammates — curlers Brad Gushue and Mark Nichols and short track speed skater Charles Hamelin — made their Olympic debuts in 2006. Gushue and Nichols are back for the first time since then, while Hamelin is set to compete in his fifth consecutive Winter Games.

*Hamelin can make history in Beijing. With five Olympic medals already under his belt, the 37-year-old needs one more to match long track speed skater Cindy Klassen for the Canadian Winter Olympic record. A sixth medal would also tie Hamelin with Andre De Grasse as Canada's most decorated male Olympian. A seventh would put him alongside Penny Oleksiak for most decorated Canadian Olympian ever.

*Five sets of siblings are on the team. Chloé and Justine Dufour-Lapointe, who shared the women's moguls podium in Sochi eight years ago, will