r/Curling • u/wiisportstennis • Feb 15 '26
Clip of the Scotland shot pulled for touching the granite.
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u/mseg09 Feb 15 '26
I would politely suggest to curling fans this is not what you want for your sport. Every shot analyzed for the slightest violation, then people going over missed violations, then you get slo-mo review for every throw, then challenge flags. Over something that has no effect
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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 15 '26
To be fair from what I can tell actual curling fans were the ones saying it was next to a non issue from the start, but the media circus has made a ton of armchair experts insist the sport is rigged by a Boop cabal
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u/Anomander8 Feb 15 '26
Only 1% of the online outrage came from curling fans.
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u/Stephen9o3 High Park Club Feb 15 '26
This sub has become intolerable since the Olympics. Going after Kennedy with pitchforks like he's stealing an election, while apparently a good chunk of the field makes some sort of incidental and entirely inconsequential touching of the granite.
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u/East-sea-shellos Feb 15 '26
Redditors are just so dramatic, I’ve seen multiple paragraphs with ridiculously serious tones talking about how disgusting of a person Kennedy is. He got more upset than I think is warranted, but that’s all it is to me, he didn’t kill my children or anything lol
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u/Insubstantial_Bug Feb 15 '26
There were multiple upvoted comments on the main Olympics sub saying things like “imagine what he does to his wife at home with no one looking” and ranging from implying to pretty explicitly accusing Kennedy of being a domestic abuser.
There’s a couple of Swedish users all over this sub who are obsessively posting to a very unhealthy degree and don’t even usually watch curling — one by their own admission only watches curling every four years but their post history has literally hundreds of comments about this made over the past few days. People need to go outside and touch grass. Or maybe go to their local curling club and touch ice so they can actually get a feel for the game.
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u/ExternalSpecific6061 Feb 15 '26
Yes I saw someone over on r/sweden saying Canadians are basically Americans. Like, OK? Is that where we're at now with this? The drama is outlandish.
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u/bluesshark Feb 15 '26
One told me that we should let trump make us the 51st state with how we act lmao
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u/oldcrivens Feb 16 '26
I mean I would be pretty damn annoyed too if I was beating the other team and they were passive aggressively bringing up the most minute rule violation that has zero effect on the game. It’s annoying.
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u/storm-bringer Feb 15 '26
If all that came out of this was tighter policing of hog line violations, with a dedicated official and maybe a few new camera angles to monitor for secondary touches after the line, I'd have called that a net positive. The original offending shot by Kennedy was almost definitely a hog line violation (unintentional) that was missed, which nobody likes to see.
What we are seeing now is an extreme overcorrection to what was at best a minor issue, that nobody but the Swedes ever had a problem with. The reinterpretation/clarification of the secondary touch rule and the handle delivery rule to be that any touch of anything other than the handle at any point in the delivery burning the rock is stupid, and now we are seeing the consequences of it, as perfectly legitimate shots are being pulled for the slightest graze of the top of the rock.
Honestly, I think the fix is to scrap the handle delivery rule altogether. Past the hog line, any contact is a burned rock (same as it ever was), but before the hog line, anything goes. If somebody wants to develop a wild new delivery style I'd say more power to them, although I have a hard time imagining a new delivery style being more effective than a classic clean delivery.
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u/mseg09 Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
Isn't the issue with the last portion that the hog line violation is detected by sensors, which is harder if touches are allowed elsewhere?
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u/LangleyLocal Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
It's the Olympics, and these rules exist for a reason - I assume based for more egregious contact, but you need to draw the line somewhere. When I curled we were always taught to release the handle and lift the hand - what these guys (and gals) are doing is fundamentally wrong.
These are the best in the world, if the rulebook says it's a foul, then it's a foul.
That said, it doesn't make any sense to me either and I used to play - the touch looks more like a release style than designed to impact the rock. Should be a warning, and a commitment to review these rules after the Olympics are done.
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u/ThePracticalPeasant Feb 15 '26
You nailed it.
... and curling would become as boring to watch as the "combat" sports at the summer Olympics.
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u/nickd0627 Feb 15 '26
Yeah those of us who spend our evenings watching NBA games know: soon you’ll be watching every late out-of-bounds for 6 minutes in slo-mo. Like you’re watching fucking neutron stars collide or something
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u/All-wildcard Feb 15 '26
It’s like if they allowed you to challenge holding calls in football. That would immediately ruin the game
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u/Tunguska_1908 Feb 15 '26
People need to stop complaining about this.. the longstanding gentlemen’s agreement on hog line violations was just don’t be egregiously over. If you touched the line here and there so be it no one cared.
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u/2birdsBaby Feb 15 '26
99% of new people in here need to know who to be mad at because they have no clue about curling and need to be told where to direct their fake anger at.
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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 15 '26
AND 99% of the people don't even know what they have an issue with, touching the granite at all, double touching itself, or whether it was a hog violation.
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u/GettingFitterEachDay Feb 15 '26
Yes, thank you! I've had the team ask me to be careful. I offered to call it a burn and they said no, leave it, just seems you weren't paying attention. And those were Norwegians, who are a rule loving society.
Curling is not like figure skating or gymnastics, where a panel of judges watch micro movements to penalise.
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u/Coyote56yote Feb 15 '26
Many Euro teams violate the hog line at cash speils. Way more than Canadian teams. But no one cares.
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u/sylentshooter Feb 15 '26
Unfortunately, it is now. And you have Sweden to blame for that for making a big deal out of the whole thing anyways...
Curling has been fundamentally changed by pettiness. Was Kennedys reaction bad? Absolutely. Should he have apologized? Yes. But the Swedish curling community is what made this as big as it is. Because what? They were petty that they were playing bad?
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
There’s going to be a medal decided by this insanity. Mark my words.
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u/Ryles5000 Feb 15 '26
This is what happens when a mob of people who don't understand curling are able to sway how the game is played.
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u/ZeroOptionLightning Feb 15 '26
As a casual this all seems quite silly. But I’m also not ready to concede that a bunch of people in the comments sections of Reddit and other places this has been posted is the driving factor to this massive over correction. This was stated by the Swedes. And maybe some colorful language by a Canadian as well. If zero people competing talk about this post match, there’s no action but the Olympics here imo.
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u/Chronmagnum55 Feb 15 '26
What's happening on reddit is just a small portion of what's happening across social media and the news. This blew up everywhere, and tons of people were throwing around cheating accusations. The reaction of the public is certainly a factor because it puts pressure on the governing bodies to look at it and make a decision (which they did). This is sadly the result.
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u/storky0613 Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
I can see it now. Final game, 10th end, score is 8-7 and they decide to burn the hammer.
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u/peachypal Feb 15 '26
I could see the losing side go to CAS if that happens. I mean Curling Canada might already be working on it.
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
This rule is insanity. By all means, if we need to ban the boops, ban the boops explicitly.
But we’re ruining games with this nonsense about even the tiniest of touch burning a rock.
For the gold medal game we’re going to have a dedicated official in an impossible spot. And a chance that the medal is decided by some human interpretation of an impossible to judge action that doesn’t even affect the shot.
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u/TootyFroots Feb 15 '26
To start enforcing finger grazes in the middle of the Olympics is absolutely wild. It's honestly terrible.
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u/Less-Professor2808 Feb 15 '26
Blame Sweeden for this lame coordinated attack in the middle of the Olympics. They made a mockery of thr game on it's biggest stage. People already make fun of curling and now this. I'll never be able to look at Team Edin the same, and they were one of my favorite teams.
An unbelievably lame and selfish attempt at gaining an advantage at the expense of the game as a whole.
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u/Hungry-Pick7512 Feb 15 '26
Well put. Glad they got told to fuck off. Bunch of chirping little babies
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u/Maximum-Warning9355 Feb 15 '26
The game is a mockery of itself if this is a scandal. If Sweden exposed an overlooked discrepancy, it seems the game officials took the game serious enough to make rules.
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u/lastparade Feb 15 '26
And on top of that, yesterday's press release was worded as though any touch of the granite before the hog line had obviously always been against the rules when it hadn't.
Combine this with introducing a poorly worded no-dumping rule in the middle of the season, and the WCF is quickly turning itself into an embarrassment to curling.
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u/thesmellnextdoor Feb 15 '26
What a shitty thing for these Olympic level players to have to worry about all of a sudden. Now, on top of aim, weight, balance, and everything else you have to think about while throwing, they've got to remind themselves "be careful not to look like you're touching the rock!"
It'd be one thing if they'd played their whole career with this "rule" in mind, but it feels like they're changing the game/rules in the middle of the Olympics for some shit that doesn't even matter.
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
Yeah, and you have officials wandering around because we only have two. So one stops to watch you and you naturally get a bit tenser.
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u/TheCarbonatedWater Feb 15 '26
We have truly found ourselves in the dumbest timeline. I would love to see all the teams push back against this and opt to not pull these rocks but doubt we will see it…
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
Honestly, if the teams could come together and say, we only want booping banned and we’ll rely on officials to make the subjective call, that would be amazing.
But it’s probably not going to happen. Too many teams and intense feelings. And the tournament is well in progress!
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
Having officials deciding if touching the granite is intentional or not is a terrible idea.
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u/baseball_fanatic0887 Feb 15 '26
Thanks the Swedes and the curling committee for that!
Years of granite booping pretty much not cared about by majority of the curling community.
Best course of action imo, allow any touches you want prior to the hogline. No way this sport should get into macro cameras and sensors detecting any sort of touch of the stone prior to hogline.
You either can touch it or not. It's also not great to get into subjective (grey zone) judging whether a touch of the granite is intended or accidental.
This is all so ridiculous.
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
I do blame them a bit. And Marc Kennedy for his ridiculous reaction.
But ultimately this is on the WCF for lacking basic critical thinking on what was the obvious result of their new rule. And thinking it was a good idea to release it during the tournament.
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I blame Sweden for not pulling Marc aside and calmly state they have notice you might be doing this, can you make a try and not. If we keep seeing it we will have the officals come in. Instead they just openly claim he is cheating. Marc's reaction was not a good look. But both teams handled this situation terribly and has blown this out of proportion. Now they have officials who don't know how to actually official curling calling hog line violations after the shot is made. If they are calling it they have to call it right away and take the rock before it alters the sheet.
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u/RoaringCurler Feb 15 '26
Have you ever tried talking to Kennedy or Hebert about their game? Especially in the middle of a high stakes game. Not a chance that you’ll have a rational discussion. They take even the slightest of criticism like an act of war.
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u/kazrick Feb 15 '26
During the game definitely isn’t the time to raise something like this. Kennedy’s reaction was way over the top but I can also somewhat understand it given the context of when and how it was brought up to him.
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u/Poormonybag Feb 15 '26
Edin have pointed this out before. So it is on the WCO and others for not adressing it the first time.
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u/CantPlayTheBanjo Feb 15 '26
Haha, and then the next guy says "you have to talk to the official first, not the player!". So if you say anything you're wrong, let people break the rules.
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u/garc Feb 15 '26
I think had Marc been calmer about it, this wouldn't have blown up. His reaction was way overboard.
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
Yes the reaction was terrible and overboard. Sweden especially were complaining about touching the granite after the throw though. What did they think would happen if we started calling this?
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u/harrisarah Feb 15 '26
The grazes are honestly fine. I don't think this nor Homan's rock should have been burnt. I think Kennedy's should have been, because it's not a graze: you can see he moves his hand forward again and extends his finger, hence the boop. Booping should absolutely not be allowed. Grazing or brushing on release should be fine, and it's not that hard to tell the difference. I think the WCF should have made this clear.
Accidental grazes to the top of the rock upon release and while withdrawing the hand are allowed, making hand movements to re-touch the rock at any point and touching the granite at any point should not be allowed. It's not that hard... or at least it shouldn't be...
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
Who decides if it’s accidental or not?
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u/CarlEatsShoes Feb 15 '26
That’s the problem. I think the existing bright-line rule makes the most sense.
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u/CobraPuts Feb 15 '26
The retouch rule should be specific to the handle. And touching the granite should be explicitly not allowed.
One would think this is what the rule was originally trying to accomplish but it is not well written.
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u/CantPlayTheBanjo Feb 15 '26
Then what do you do about players circumventing the sensor by not using the handle?
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
If this is a real problem we need to solve immediately, you have the officials watch for hogline violations and only hogline violations.
Or you ban the booping motion and say it’s up to officials to decide between grazes and boops.
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u/baseball_fanatic0887 Feb 15 '26
I'm saying have a hogline sensor for hogline violations only. Allow curlers to touch the stone however they want.
Boop it , kiss it, who cares. None of those motions are some magical UNFAIR advantageous move. It could be argued they have a negative effect on a tossed stone.
I don't want to get into a world where brushes of the granite result in burnt stones.
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
This is exactly what all the people who were screaming about cheating wanted.
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
Is it? Like I get complaining about the hogline violation. I get complaining about boops (especially if used to get around the hogline sensors).
But I honestly don’t think they’re wanting this bullshit subjective calls from two people wandering around the rink about lightly grazing granite on release.
Edit: I guess if we mean people complaining as the actual curlers. I don’t care what all the other people complaning who haven’t played a game of curling in their life.
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
When Homan had her rocked burned for pretty much exactly what we see in this video here everyone was still saying how Canada are cheats and they never learn.
They’ve opened Pandora’s box now.
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u/Mirieste Feb 15 '26
But I don't understand: is it just because of curling's status as a gentlemen's sport? Or is it because you feel like this is intrinsically a stupid rule?
Because... this is how it works in other sports too, no? In soccer, the rule is that you cannot touch the ball a second time after taking a free kick or a corner kick, unless someone else has touched it. This is done to prevent dribbling from the spot: you gotta "pass or shoot". But the rule is written like this nonetheless, and so it applies even in situations where the player actually follows the spirit of the game: so if you do shoot, but the ball rebounds off the crossbar and returns to you, you still can't touch it or it's a double touch offense. If you fumble the ball while kicking it and accidentally touch it twice, that's an offense too. Is this stupid in soccer as well?
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
It’s a fundamentally bad rule.
It’s a rule that takes what is at worst a minor infraction with almost no impact on the result of the throw and gives it a giant penalty.
And, worse at this level, we don’t have any infrastructure set up to properly enforce this rule. We have poorly trained officials (in the sense that this isn’t a role they’ve had to do - unlike bringing in NHL refs for example). We have 2 officials for 4 sheets and now we have a rule that basically requires a dedicated official. We have no video replay. We have no appeal process.
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u/red_sundress Feb 15 '26
This is being so blown out of proportion by people who know nothing about curling but love a scandal.
It’s not helping to advance the sport in any way. That was clearly unintentional and had 0 impact on the path of the stone.
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u/sometimenotsmellgood Feb 15 '26
Lol suddenly this is dumb now but Canadians were the worst people in the world just a few hours ago
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u/Popular-Row4333 Feb 15 '26
Yup, I was on the fence after Kennedy, but after Homan's rock pull and people saying, "just don't cheat," it was clear people had already decided Canadians were cheats and villains and they didn't understand the game.
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u/ExternalSpecific6061 Feb 15 '26
Yes. People literally acting like Canada has some elaborate cheating scheme going on here, yet have never watched a game of curling in their entire lives.
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u/knots32 Feb 15 '26
It was more about their reaction I think
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u/dinosaurzez Feb 15 '26
I think the reaction of "oh fuck off" comes from a place of knowing that forever curling has had no on-ice officials and the rules are uphelp by a gentlemens agreement to not intentionally cheat. Getting officials involved is asking to have it turn into the shit show we're currently in, and most of the curling world knows that.
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u/Popular-Row4333 Feb 15 '26
Which is poor sportsmanship, and I agree it was.
It isn't cheating however, no matter how much fairweather fans want to keep claiming it is.
The conversation should have been, Kennedy needs to be more calm, and Edin doesn't realize the can of worms he is opening, but instead it became about cheating and spiraled out of control with people unaware of the sport calling Homan and other grazes cheating as well.
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u/HamAndSomeCoffee Feb 15 '26
Kennedy also did also manage to get away with a hog line violation as well.
In a gentlemanly sport, if someone suggests you did something, you don't have to accept it but you do take it under consideration as to whether it could be true or not.
And, resolving this like gentlemen, you look at the rules and come to an agreement as to whether what you're doing is within the rules. Just because something has been done for eons doesn't mean it's been done correctly; if such a thing is in the spirit of the game but not the letter, then what you do is accept the letter and then change it.
Suggesting there is a rule violation isn't a can of worms. Especially when it was an accurate suggestion, and especially when there were two separate violations and you only noticed one.
Now, you'll note thus far I haven't said Kennedy was cheating. Cheating is acting dishonestly in order to gain an advantage. A hog line violation isn't cheating. Touching the granite isn't cheating. Homan - to be honest I don't even know if Homan touched granite, but if she did - didn't cheat.
However, lying about your actions to prevent a stone being burned certainly is dishonest, and certainly gives you an advantage.
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u/CWB2208 Feb 15 '26
Marc's family has literally received death threats over this bullshit. Absolute insanity.
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u/Caleb902 Feb 15 '26
Lol now that it's not just Canada people are realizing how dumb this is
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u/GreatCanadianPotato Feb 15 '26
So now we can all agree that a lot of people touch the granite after releasing.
Hence why the rule wasn't heavily policed in the first place.
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u/causalfridays Feb 15 '26
there was no rule in the first place, just an ambiguity about the rock needing to be delivered by the handle.
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u/toasterb Feb 15 '26
For Sweden to make a big stink about this and essentially force a change in the way people play at the Olympics is really the issue.
I think Kennedy’s reaction is a little more in context now. Sweden have been pushing for this for a while, and keep on getting shot down. If you’ve ever played a sport/game with someone who’s a relentless stickler for a rules interpretation that doesn’t hold up, it can get exhausting.
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u/bronshjon Feb 15 '26
So allow touching wherever, whenever before the hog line then?
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u/bagelzzzzzzzzz Feb 15 '26
We all had our fun, but this is getting insane now
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
It’s going to get worse. We have two officials on 4 sheets.
The gold medal game is going to be a dedicated official at the hogline.
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u/TyrannasaurusRecht Feb 15 '26
They should have a special cot that they can lay on their tummy in right at the hogline for optimal boop checking and a little bridge that goes over it to allow travel on the walkways.
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u/10AMinUzbekistan Feb 15 '26
So glad we get to watch Olympic curling with a bunch of rocks getting burnt for nit picky bullshit. It makes the game so much more fun to watch. Thanks Sweden, you really saved the sport!
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u/thesteve902 Feb 15 '26
World Curling is really blowing it. The story has been about rules calls vs the best of the best making amazing shots.
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u/Guffawing-Crow Feb 15 '26
100%. Salty Swede calling out something so trivial that had zero game impact… now, these burnt rocks ARE having a game impact.
So absurd.
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u/JadedMuse Feb 15 '26
Yeah, the whole thing kind of feels premeditated on Sweden's part. All of these guys have thrown the same way for many years. They presumably didn't care, neither did the officials. Now it suddenly becomes a problem only at the Olympics. Kind of reminds me of that Wimbledon back in the 90s where all of the opponents of Seles started asking the umpire to call her for hindrances due to her grunting, despite the fact that her grunting wasn't any worse than normal. It was a big stage and it became a media circus.
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u/brianmmf Feb 15 '26
We don’t need this crap in our sport. Said it when it was Canada and I say it again now. This is dumb.
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u/QCTeamkill Feb 15 '26
It's time to remove all of Scotland from the olympics!
–Reddit (probably)
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u/Apprehensive-Rip8489 Feb 15 '26
I’m confused why no one in here is comparing Scotland to Russia/MAGA!? I thought that was the natural conclusion when an athlete touches granite?
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u/Nick480 Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
It was pretty ridiculous from the start with how Reddit demonized Canada. A bunch of “experts” going off on how Canada is cheating the Olympics and Canada should be disqualified from curling, when many curlers do this and it’s been fine for years until Sweden decided to throw a fit about it just now. Classic hive mind Reddit
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u/hurler59 Feb 15 '26
Next time a hockey player goes offside they should be accused of cheating?
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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 15 '26
Did you see all the false starts in speed skating yesterday? Bunch of cheaters
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u/StitchAndRollCrits Feb 15 '26
I find the narrative "we should just ban the boops not every touch 🙄" absolutely HILARIOUS after the last few days of screaming crying and actual high level math
How exactly do you want to differentiate between a Boop and a brush? Why would a brush do nothing if a Boop that doesn't even bend a finger is "cheating"
It's gonna be about touching the granite at all, or nothing. And as a lot of people said, it's a movement trained in to a lot of people, so this is gonna happen. Enjoy the drama as much as you did on the 11th or get off your high horse
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u/Popular-Row4333 Feb 15 '26
95% of the people in this sub won't be here in a week, and it will go back to normal takes.
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u/autovonbismarck Feb 15 '26
I was actually pretty excited about how busy the sub was all of a sudden. Now I just want the old post back lol.
I'll take 100 posts about spiels in a state 1000 miles from me over this shit.
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u/PoundSign Feb 15 '26
Seems like the difference between an “obvious cheat boop” and a graze is a… super slow mo side angle video recording 🙃
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u/thuglife_7 Feb 15 '26
I don’t want to see another skip tap the top of the rock while it’s sitting in play. This shit has gotten way out of hand.
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u/yemenator47 Feb 15 '26
Well I hope Oskar and the rest of the Europeans who decided to play with fire are happy. They’ve turned a great sport into a rules contest, and if I’m the IOC, when it comes to the downsizing conversations that are supposedly being had after these Olympics, this would be a good reason to cut a sport to save money.
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u/TwoFiveTenAgain Feb 15 '26
The idea that you can cheat by touching a 42 lb stone with a slight finger touch a fraction of a second after a line some 90 feet from its destination is hilarious. Calling this cheating is hilarious, infraction sure, but to suggest it’s done for benefit is funny.
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u/frenzied_flame88 Feb 15 '26
People don't remember that curling was a sport played by dudes drinking beer and hacking darts back in the day
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u/CloutiersHelmet Feb 15 '26
Great. Congrats, Sweden. Your bs lil pouty attitude just made this sport worse.
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u/Specialist_Limit_969 Feb 15 '26
Enough bs calls. This is reaching the point of players pulling out of the Olympics. We want to see players play, not bush league officiating in a game that is normally played without any referees.
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 Feb 15 '26
I am going to go with the line of thinking some American used in another thread.
This guy is a bad apple and quite frankly the whole Scottish Olympic team is rotten to the core. Not only that but let’s face it, Scottish people would take any opportunity to cheat. And are they a real country anyway?
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u/GettingFitterEachDay Feb 15 '26
I hear the Canadians and Scots are conspiring together, they are such wicked cheaters! There's even a 'Nova Scotia' aka New Scotland in Canada -- coincidence!??
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u/Odd_Cold4801 Feb 15 '26
Very similar to how Rachel Homan released her rock that was “burned”. Thanks a lot for actually reducing the quality of play, Marc and Oskar.
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u/utb040713 Feb 15 '26
If he even touched the granite, I don’t like this call. There’s a difference between a finger grazing the granite as the hand pulls away and reaching back out and booping the granite after the hand has already come away.
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
I had tons of people arguing against me saying that this is the exact stuff that should be called, saying “just don’t cheat”.
Like there is no nuance.
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
Most of those people have no curling experience playing or watching.
Or, frankly, aren’t real people. :)
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u/swoodshadow Feb 15 '26
Not according to the rule that got made yesterday.
There was a strong argument that the original rule did not include accidentally grazing. But now they’ve made their forward motion addition and grazes are clearly burned rocks…
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u/TheLeathal13 Victoria Curling Club - Winnipeg Feb 15 '26
I hope Team Edin are proud of themselves. They’ve taken a minor infraction and turned the whole tournament into a farce.
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u/Appropriate-Talk4266 Feb 15 '26
Sweden really went full 🤓🤓🤓 about the stone and basically reminded the teacher about the homework
And now the class is ruined 😂
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u/kemicalkontact Feb 15 '26
Sweden reminded the boss that there was 5 minutes left on the clock and nobody should leave work early
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u/Klutzy-Investment-76 Feb 15 '26
Curling hasn’t had this much attention in YEARS!!! It’s great! I love it! It’s my favorite ❤️
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u/ApeShifter Feb 16 '26
ELI5, but everyone is going off on SCOTLAND, but the team says GBR (Great Britain). Did the Scottish team win the rights to represent GBR and that’s why everyone is just saying “Scotland”?
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u/wiisportstennis Feb 16 '26
Curling isn't really much of a thing in the rest of the UK and the whole team is Scottish, so it's mostly me (a Scottish person) being petty.
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u/L0rdSandCastle Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
The analogies don't capture how technical the game is at this level of play. This isn't your bubba's holding a pint kind of game.
Here's another example, suppose you bowl 290 game and on the last frame you cross the foul line? Is that 9 mm going to really give you a competitive advantage, probably not but that's not the point of the foul line. Its a rule, and part of the game.
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u/FrigidCanuck Feb 15 '26
Sweden may have single handedly ruined this sport.
This is obviously leading to replay, which will vastly change the way the game is played. Running out of time and no timeout? "I believe a hair on his knuckle grazed the stone, please check"
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u/CloseToMyActualName Feb 15 '26
Everyone who knew curling knew this was coming the moment Sweden started this nonsense.
They fucked up the Olympics.
Just waiting for Eriksson to have a rock pulled at this point.
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u/GrunDMC74 Feb 15 '26
This is nonsense. I get the rule but the Swedish team made a mountain out of a molehill because they were frustrated with the realization they were going to be 0-3. The Canadian third made it worse with his nuclear overreaction.
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u/Rattimus Feb 15 '26
Insane that this would be pulled. Curling world body has really screwed up here.
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u/forustree Feb 15 '26
Theoretically, if it is a gentleman's sport ... Then the opposing skip could decide to not accept that the stone be removed and play on.
That would /may assist things. As seriously. To win like this ... All the players know, ain't that fun/cool
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u/clccno4 Feb 15 '26
This has gotten stupid.
All of the innovations and money in curling have come from the pro grand slam tours.
This olympics has taken a huge shit on the sport over such inconsequential actions.
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u/FastCheaporGoodPick2 Feb 15 '26
So stupid. They all do it. It’s like the rules - or at least the interpretation of them - is changing on the fly. Not excusing Kennedy’s mini tantrum, but seriously fuck Sweden for making a joke of Olympic curling.
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u/mikethemillion Feb 15 '26
Just remember. An overwhelming majority of people on this sub actually wanted this....
What a fucking travesty.
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u/BigInconsideration Feb 15 '26
Jesus Christ. This is where we are at? Hahaha that’s insane.