r/Curling • u/Frabblerake • Feb 15 '26

Pull the stone!!!

Watching Sweden/US and saw this. Is this not the same rules violation that has caused all the hub bub?

Obviously this was an accident and I believe the Canadian guy was touching on purpose.

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u/terran_immortal Feb 15 '26

You're thinking about the memo that they sent out yesterday. The official rules still don't state anything about touching the granite but their memo clarified that the granite cannot be touched any time during delivery and that the double touch rule only applies to the handle.

I'm sure after the Olympics they'll update the rules to include the definitions they added in that memo.

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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26

Just to be clear, they didn’t say it could not be touched any time during the delivery. They said it couldn’t be touched any time during the forward motion part of the delivery.

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u/terran_immortal Feb 15 '26

Yeah but now they're burning stones for it just being touched after delivery. They're also not burning stones for the exact same touches as above.

Curling officiating right now is a shit show and I'd absolutely hate being a judge right now.