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Canada-Sweden cheating controversy, explained: Why curling match ended in profanity-laced tirade amid accusations
Friday's curling match between Canada and Sweden featured some NSFW language following cheating accusations.
A curling match between Canada and Sweden on Friday erupted with profanity-laced back-and-forth over cheating allegations.
There’s no fighting in curling! Until now. It was quite a scene on the ice Friday as the Canadian and Swedish curling teams got into it. It was near the end of the match when Sweden’s vice-captain, Oskar Eriksson,
The men’s Canadian curling team defeated the Swedish men’s curling squad 8-6 to improve their record to 8-6. Curling certainly isn’t the type of sport where you expect swearing and trash-talk, at least compared to football, hockey and basketball.
In an email to teams on Saturday, World Curling clarified what is then permitted, saying that a double touch of the stone handle is permitted before the hog line but that “touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed”. Any infringement should result in that stone being removed.
Canada’s men’s and women’s curling teams faced double-touch accusations at the 2026 Winter Olympics, sparking controversy.
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Rich Ruohonen, an alternate for Team USA men's curling, joined the Feb. 12 match, making history along the way.
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The double touch has become one of the biggest stories in the sport of curling at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Remarkably, but was a first end double touch that contributed to a Canadian loss to Switzerland in women’s
The curling controversy at the Winter Olympics has widened as increased surveillance of matches resulted in the removal of a stone thrown by the British men's team for the same alleged violation that burned the Canadians two days in a row.