Sarah Nurse's historic Olympics: A closer look

Team Canada was simply unstoppable in women's ice hockey at Beijing 2022, and Sarah Nurse was their heartbeat.

The 27-year-old scored within eight minutes of Canada’s 3-2 dismantling of the United States in the gold medal game and also had a hand in one of captain Marie-Phillip Poulin’s two goals.

It was a fitting conclusion to a record-breaking Games for Nurse, who set a new Olympic single-tournament points record with five goals and 13 assists in Canada's seven matches.

"It’s everything (winning gold) coming off 2018 and having that silver medal it felt like the weight of the world on our shoulders, and having this gold it is going to feel as light as ever," Nurse said after the final in Beijing.

“Honestly, I don’t have words right now, that was the longest game of hockey I’ve ever played.

“Waking up this morning, we knew that we were going to finish this game with a gold medal if we just stuck to our plan and processes. This is a dream come true."

We take a closer look at just how Nurse helped make that dream come true for Team Canada.

As the cliché goes, records are there to be broken. Whenever that day comes, we will have witnessed a truly spectacular ice hockey athlete. However, no matter when that happens, Nurse's positive impact on the game and what her performances mean for Black women around the world will live long after the next record-breaker.