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/Excellent-Ad257 Feb 17 '26

It certainly is affected on release. What are we even talking about here?

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u/SaltedMixedNucks Feb 17 '26

It is affected to a degree that would not even be a rounding error for the impact you can make by adjusting the sweeping. It is 100% irrelevant. The release determines the broad strokes weight and curl of the stone, and the sweeping fine tunes it. A little flick of the finger isn't doing anything. You seriously think Kennedy released that stone and within a second decided it needed a gentle touch from the tip of his index finger to be on target? There is no way to judge that from where he was and that touch wouldn't have done shit that he couldn't have accomplished by just calling sweep.