So often in curling a game can come down to just one stone.

In the eighth end of Thursday’s gold medal match at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the U.S. was sitting shot rock alone on the four-foot with one Swedish throw remaining.

Sweden’s Isabella Wrana, who shot 96 percent on draw shots and 100 percent on takeout attempts, made good use of her one stone. The 28-year-old smiled slightly as she moved to the hack and threw her rock down the ice. The precision Wrana showed all game was still there in the biggest moment as she pushed the yellow U.S. rock out of the house and secured two points for her team and a 6-5 win.

The win reversed a Swedish loss to Team USA in round-robin play just two days earlier. 

The U.S. team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin leaves Cortina with a silver medal and a long list of history made. Just by reaching the tournament’s finale, Thiesse became the first American woman to ever win an Olympic curling medal. Also, she and Dropkin are the first Americans to win an Olympic medal in mixed doubles curling, and just the third U.S. curling team in any discipline to do so.

The Swedish siblings, Isabella and Rasmus Wrana, made their own history this week. Sweden had also never won a medal in mixed doubles. The Wranas' gold is the 11th all-time medal for a Swedish curling team, and they won their country a curling medal for the sixth straight Olympics — the longest such streak for any country.

They also are the only brother/sister pair to win a gold medal together at the Olympics.

Sweden saw all the highs and lows of curling in Cortina. In their fifth round-robin game, they were shut out by Norway, 9-0, to become the first mixed doubles team to fail to score a single point in an Olympic match. One game later, they bounced back with a 13-7 victory over Switzerland, a record for most points in an Olympic game.

In Tuesday’s game, both teams opened with big shots to take leads early. In the first, Thiesse’s run-back knocked the U.S. stone onto the button for one.

Sweden one-upped them in the second. Isabella Wrana’s hammer throw floated past U.S. guards and in for two to give her team their first lead.

The second and eighth ends were the only time either team scored more than one point.

The United States' chance at two in the third came up short as Thiesse’s runback attempt over-curled and never touched the house. Her team settled for one and evened the score, 2-2.

Thiesse came up with a takeout of Sweden’s only sitting stone on her final throw of the fourth, holding the Swedish team to just one and a slight 3-2 lead at the halfway break.

Thiesse couldn’t replicate Isabella Wrana’s draw skills in the fifth. Her hammer throw needed to take largely the same path, and got past the Swedish stone, but didn’t curl enough to get inside. The Americans were forced to instead settle for one and another tie in the score.

In the sixth, Sweden’s takeout attempt on their penultimate throw missed, leaving the U.S. sitting shot-stone on the eight-foot with a clean house. Thiesse drew to the button, and Isabella Wrana’s throw nudged it out the way, but the Swedish were still forced to again settle for just one.

Isabella Wrana didn’t have a single takeout through the first six ends, but she came up with two big ones late in the match. The U.S. was sitting three all alone in the house when the Swedish thrower knocked two of them away. Thiesse answered with a knockout of her own to secure two for her team and a 5-4 lead with one end to play.

Thiesse and Dropkin shot a combined 83 percent on the night. Dropkin had a game-best 12 takeouts. 

Thiesse’s time in Cortina isn’t over. She’ll compete as a member of the U.S. women’s curling team starting on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Italy's Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner defeated Great Britain to win the bronze medal, their second medal in as many Olympics.