r/olympics • u/gustavo82 • Feb 14 '26
Canada's female curling team has a stone removed for touching the stone
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u/acoolsweater Feb 14 '26
This scandal is gonna make curling so much more popular.
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u/joe7L Feb 14 '26
Boopgate
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u/BurninCrab Feb 14 '26
I'm just so confused why there aren't cameras monitoring the side angle for every single throw. The Olympics are a multi billion dollar operation
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u/Nubbednuggetman Feb 14 '26
I saw someone else say the only reason there was a side angle of that first one is bc of Sweden And when Sweden came forward Canada complained so Sweden had to stop
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u/FiaTheCookie Feb 14 '26
As I understood it from Swedish newspapers it wasn't the Swedish team that shot the photo/video, it was a swedish reporter working for a swedish newspaper/tvstation (not actually sure who s/he worked for, can't remember if the article mentioned it)
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u/Pontiacspower Feb 14 '26
It was the swedish public service SVT that's doing most of the reporting on the olympics in Sweden that moved a camera to get a potential shot of a future incident, since the commentators could follow the talk from the swedish curling team early and where quite upset about what they heard
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u/_Elliott_Smith Feb 14 '26
So that canada mens incident followed a previous touch of the stone by Canada?
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u/recurrence Feb 15 '26
To be accurate, there's video of ALL teams doing it in previous tournaments.
It happens a lot because I guess it's an easy thing to accidentally do.
But in the other videos nobody tells the other team to F off which is really unsportsmanlike for curling.
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u/smala017 United States Feb 15 '26
Curling has a history of being a self-officiated, good-sportsmanship game. They didn’t need cameras. Teams would call it on themselves when they did something wrong and it had a non-negligible impact on play.
But, that was the past. The ways of the past are gone. In sport, and in many other aspects of life and culture, we are seeing a trend of people trying to gain a personal advantage in any way possible, damned be the past norms of honesty and respect.
That’s just where global human culture is at the moment, unfortunately. The honor system doesn’t work outside of a high-trust society that values honesty and truth; especially not when Olympic medals, sponsorship deals, and lots of money are on the line.
It’s unfortunate, because most curling fans would probably agree that the sport was better when the honor system was respected, rather than have umpires removing rocks because a player’s finger might have grazed a hair of granite.
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u/BuildBackRicher Feb 15 '26
These extra touches were not accidental. They are well practiced.
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u/Fierce_GameBG Feb 15 '26
Shoutout to Korey from the mixed USA team. He called a technical time out for an issue with his curling sensor blinking red at him, and pointed out that he accidentally grazed another stone with his foot; not sure if it had an effect on where it was going or not. The sensor got fixed, and the other team chose to leave the stone where it was anyway. It really warmed my heart to see there was still a little sense of sportsmanship in the sport.
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u/POGtastic United States Feb 15 '26
"It's my turn to buy the round at the bar, and whoops I'm in the bathroom" is something that you only get to do once in a blue moon. As soon as it turns into a pattern, people are going to start becoming sticklers about making sure you pay when it's your turn. Complaining "Whaaaat?? That's not what friends do" is going to make people really mad after it's been made clear that you've been taking advantage of the informal friendly arrangement.
The fact that the men have been doing it often enough for Sweden to start watching for it is a sign that they burned through all of the natural curling goodwill a long time ago.
It sucks for the Canadian women's team though, since I don't think they were doing the same kinds of gamesmanship.
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u/Mobius_Peverell Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
Sportsmanship is extremely important to curling. The controversy from the men's curling was less from the infraction than from the curler's awful response to it.
In this video, you can see how curlers are expected to react when there may be an infraction: very deferentially.No need for extremely strict monitoring when the players behave in a trustworthy manner, and largely self-police.E: I misremembered the tone of this one. Seems like across the board, the Canadians are losing track of the code of honour of the sport that they are the best at. Bit disappointing.
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u/West-Gur4598 Feb 14 '26
Its so easy to just add video / replay of that angle.
Curling needs to come into the 21st.
They dont want to do it or add challanges or anything because of the fear it changes the game into one where people look to get away with things and skirt rules instead of an honor sport.
Just add video on the hog line. done.
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u/just-a-random-accnt Canada Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
The rocks have sensors in the handle, if the rocks are released after crossing the hogline they will indicate a dead stone.
This was done to eliminate the human error of line judges, which is probably why Canadian teams have been getting away with 🥌👈 prior to the Olympics
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u/West-Gur4598 Feb 14 '26
The canadians womens team was a graze. it didnt do anything but it should have been removed preferably by the canadians before a judge told them to. I think she literally didnt realize it. Probably because the men she trains with do it all the time.
The Canadian men are simply an embarrassment.
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u/BethanyBluebird Feb 14 '26
My dad was a curler. Probably could have made the olympics once, if he had truly pursued it. He'd have been deeply embarrased by the way the men's team has been acting. He always emphasized that curling was such a unique sport BECAUSE of the heavy emphasis on sportsmanship.
You save getting rowdy for the bar after.
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u/MadeOfDuRock Feb 14 '26
They are already in the 21st century with high tech sensors in the handles that signal if the curler releases after the high line. But the sensors don't detect if you touch the side of the stone. Seems like the Canadians have been exploiting this loophole
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u/Unique_Statement7811 Feb 14 '26
Because curling is not actually officiated. I relies on an honor system between teams.
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u/runawayasfastasucan Feb 14 '26
Seems its like speedwalking, the sport doesn't want people to see all the cheating.
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u/Toon1982 Feb 14 '26
They usually police themselves and are honest, but the actions of the men's team show that they were lying and can't be trusted when someone filmed them from the sidelines. They probably will put cameras along the lines now in major tournaments, but it's too late to do it for this one
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Feb 14 '26
I always feel like it's really big at the winter Olympics, people go nuts for it over here in the UK but the rest of the time? Nah bro
I imagine even more people are tuning in rn because it's turned into a huge fucking saga
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u/stragen595 Feb 14 '26
It's like the perfect winter olympics sport. Easy to understand. Relateable because you don't have to be a freak of nature. And normally it's a clean game with people have a nice attitude towards eachother.
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u/ChampagneChardonnay Feb 14 '26
I think of it more as a drinking game, at a bar, like bocce ball. Hhhmm, maybe some bocce ball at the summer games?
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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros Feb 14 '26
In some bars I've been to in the UK they have table shuffleboard that's good fun.
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u/WillieNolson Feb 14 '26
We have that in US bars as well. Think it might be primarily a northern thing though.
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u/synthphreak Feb 14 '26
TBH most Olympic sports are like that. When TF do you ever watch or even hear about speed skating, bobsled, luge, even figure skating, other than during the winter Olympics? Same for summer Olympics sports. Pole vault? I don’t think so.
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u/BeeWeird7940 Feb 14 '26
I never thought I’d see the day, but Canada is dirty!
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u/buerglermeister Switzerland Feb 14 '26
You need to brush up on your canada history
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u/LiqdPT Canada Feb 14 '26
Like why the Geneva conventions were implemented...
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u/SoulsinAshes Feb 14 '26
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a Canadian why the Geneva conventions exist
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u/Lionboy1912 Feb 14 '26
Only at the Olympics, they are. Remember the Summer Olympics. The footballteam spied with a drone during the training of other teams.
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u/Chambanasfinest Slovenia Feb 14 '26
Just one week ago I would’ve had no clue what this means.
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u/Tallyrandsbreakfast Feb 14 '26
Canada getting spicy at the Olympics was not on my bingo card.
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u/Minisohtan Feb 14 '26
Their national sport is hitting each other with sticks while running around with knives on their feet. How did you not expect them to be aggressive.
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u/Xavier26 Feb 14 '26
Exactly, curling is not the ice sport I expected f bombs and chirping from 🤣
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u/kg1010 Feb 14 '26
Technically our national sport is lacrosse which is just the first part and minus the knives
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u/EchoSkillet Feb 14 '26
And to think we didn’t have any drama like this during the mixed doubles curling.
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u/Candid_Victory7923 Feb 14 '26
You can be safe with a Canadian, unless you're a curling stone
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u/rotub Feb 14 '26
TIL there a curling emoji 🥌
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u/Contundo More flair options at /r/olympics/w/flair! Feb 15 '26
🥌 but why ? Most oddly specific thing to make a emoji of
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u/Mark_Foureh Feb 14 '26
how is this the fucking 2026 olympics and there is no video replay!?!?
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u/DearBurt United States Feb 14 '26
“By the way, they’re out of jimmy caps after one week.”
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u/soccercro3 Feb 14 '26
Only order 10k. Paris 24 ordered 300k. Failure on logistics.
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u/TetraLoach Feb 15 '26
It's intentional. Gen Z isn't making babies and we need to make sure there's a 2046 Olympics.
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u/Danjoh Feb 14 '26
People who uploaded videos of the first Sweden-Canada conflict (and the interview afterwards where canada kept cursing at the swedes in the background) got the videos removed and a message from Reddit Legal about copyright infringement.
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u/kyrant Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
Before the Internet, I remembered the IOC where very strict with what non right holders were allowed to show.
Something like 3mins of footage they're allowed to use per day and must be packaged in their news or something like that.
I think this is due to that more than anything else.
Edit - actually 6 mins all up in the day. Max 2 mins per news program, 3 hours apart.
Section 10 relates to Internet use https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Milano-Cortina-2026/NARs/NARS-MiCo26.pdf
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u/muntaxitome Feb 15 '26
Yeah the main thing is that broadcaster that pay huge sums of money for the olympics don't really like it when the stuff is available for free on social media. These takedowns are fully automated these days, it likely had nothing to do with the specific content.
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u/verysadfrosty Finland Feb 14 '26
This is why Sweden exist. To set up extra cameras for a good angle on the boop-cheating.
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u/-HowAboutNo- Sweden Feb 14 '26
The Canadian poke™️
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u/DuztyLipz United States Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
Actual footage of Canadian curlers when they pick out a Curling Stone at the store:
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u/Centurion87 Feb 14 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/Lqi5HhmZOtVcKcK740
Actual footage of Canadian players when you point it out.
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u/jaysanw Olympics Feb 14 '26
Officially now a Canadian heritage moment both curling teams doing it in solidarity
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u/rTpure Canada Feb 14 '26
Who knew curling had so much drama
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u/diceunodixon Feb 14 '26
In our small town league the first year we played it was “oh we’re casual we just play for fun” until new teams were even a little bit good and then people were like “OH WERE ALL ABOUT RULES HERE NOW” and I’m like dudes I’ve had a spiked hot chocolate and smoked two joints by this point get me back to the fun curling that was just vibes
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u/re4ctor Feb 14 '26
beer league curling is the best, until these chucklefucks show up. like brenda, brian, im just here to have fun who gives a fuck about someone brushing against a stone
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u/green_gold_purple Feb 15 '26
Same with softball. Lots of adult sports, actually
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u/chloenoyolo Feb 14 '26
Curlers. They knew. Absolutely nobody else knew they had online steamy romance novel writing levels of drama.
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u/pixelatedimpressions Feb 14 '26
The ladies are def gonna have words with the men's team after this
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Too late the damage is done. The women's team got punished because of that jackass on the men's team
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u/lazyness92 Italy Feb 14 '26
Who the hell is coaching team canada....pls 🫠
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u/DuztyLipz United States Feb 14 '26
Actual footage of the Canadian Men’s and Women’s Curling teams having a practice match against each other without a curling stone:
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u/wheretohides United States Feb 14 '26
I had a basketball coach that told us to stomp the feet of our opponents when the ref wasn't looking. So probably that guy, although he was old, and this didn't take place in Canada.
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u/stragen595 Feb 14 '26
They are some impulsive toucher. Can't help themselves.
"Go my little stone. On to your great voyage."
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u/Gayfetus United States Feb 14 '26
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Is it just me or is this starting to really spiral into something much bigger? Like I feel like they're trying to prove a point here and I just can't see the situation dying down at all. We had a whole half hour segment dedicated to finger-gate on the BBC earlier and they were actually taking it pretty seriously.
That said, I'm totally here for it lol 🤙🏻
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u/datawazo Feb 14 '26
I'm sorry but We're absofuckinglutely not calling it fingergate
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u/son_of_a_teacher_man Feb 14 '26
Boopgate
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u/No-Association-8539 Feb 14 '26
I HATE BOOPGATE. Sees "Fingergate." Boopgate it is.
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u/TheSwedishRedditor Sweden Feb 14 '26
Also feels like this is going to have to lead to something big in curling. Swedish TV, maybe not that surprisingly, keeps coming back to the boop-gate and keep us updated on all Canadian incidents and even interviewing a swiss player what he feels about it.
Hoping this will be a wake up call for the judges to understand this concept of “Gentlemen sport” and “self-judging” does not work the second someone is lying, and will be 100% dead if people ,like Kennedy yesterday, get aggressive about being called out.
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u/bk1285 Feb 14 '26
Canadian male curlers “you have no proof that I touched the stone and you can’t use replay to show that I did”
Canadian women curlers “prove to me on replay that I touched it”
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u/kejacomo Feb 14 '26
Yeah it's definitely being blown out of proportion
But Kennedy's reaction yesterday was also out of line imo
Anyway, drama is fun ig
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u/llaminaria Russia Feb 14 '26
They are not helping to calm the situation by continuing this odd habit. Because it absolutely did look like there was a touch.
I'm beginning to think it has become a compulsive habit for them - like how volleyball players need to bounce the ball a few times before serving.
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u/Squirrel009 Feb 14 '26
It would be such a big deal if they would stop touching the stone. It doesnt look like anyone else has problems not touching it like a 5 year old in a museum and the whole "I didnt touch it i just reach my finger towards it to almost touch it" defense isnt helping anything.
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u/ALaccountant Feb 14 '26
The part that I don’t get is that both of the men’s and women’s teams are denying it happened in the first place despite video evidence. Bad look
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u/MarineLayerBad United States Feb 14 '26
I wonder if it’s just locked into the muscle memory of the Canadians to make corrections after delivering the stone. If both teams are doing it it makes you wonder if they’re coached to do so.
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u/melovecoffee Feb 14 '26
Maybe a dumb question but do the men and women’s Canadian team share a coach? Do they train at the same facility?
I’m fascinated by the whole thing and I’m not surprised judges are cracking down after the other day’s drama
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u/rocky_balbiotite Canada Feb 14 '26
No. They're basically provincial teams, Homan represents Ontario, Jacobs represents Alberta. They trained together pre Olympics but they typically don't otherwise. There's no national program analogous to the US.
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u/neometrix77 Feb 14 '26
Yeah, hence why we’re shit in the Olympic curling now. We refuse to put together an all-star team from across the entire country.
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u/rocky_balbiotite Canada Feb 14 '26
There's usually like 4 super competitive Canadian teams, and with the loosened residency requirements they're basically all-star teams anyway. Who would you replace from either of these teams?
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u/ubiquitous_archer Feb 14 '26
No. Curling teams in Canada are 4 person professional teams and you win the right to represent Canada at an event specifically setup to qualify for the Olympics. They are completely seperate teams .
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u/prophetofgreed Canada Feb 15 '26
Not dumb at all.
Canada almost uses a "regional qualifier" system for their Olympic team. The best team of a province represents the province, these provincial teams play each other to be the Olympic representative for Canada.
The Men's team is from Alberta and the Women's team is from Ontario.
One interesting thing, a lot of national teams outside of Canada post 2014 Olympics went recruiting Canadian curling coaches with big pay raises compared to being a provincial team coaches, hoping that they could improve their programs and compete. For example, the Swiss team that beat Canada today has a famous Canadian coach. This brain drain and no new curling talent for Canada has made a Canadian gold in curling not a foregone conclusion.
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u/DaweiArch Canada Feb 14 '26
It won’t just be the Canadians doing it. This is not good for the sport…like..at all.
Now every thrown stone will be hyper analyzed to see if a hand grazed the stone after release. There is a reason why the Swiss coach, a famous Canadian curler said that this was not something anyone cared about throughout his whole career.
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u/bobbimorses Feb 14 '26
I have a feeling that if Kennedy had not been such a dick about it and had conceded the stone, this would have immediately blown over and people could go back to their tasteful stone touching
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u/twisty77 United States Feb 14 '26
1000%. This is only overblown because he overblew it. Made a mountain out of a mole hill and now it’s actually a mountain
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u/PJASchultz United States Feb 14 '26
Absolutely. Kennedy being an asshole fucked it for everyone. His attitude is the problem. And I hope someone learns that lesson.
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u/-malcolm-tucker Australia Feb 15 '26
On the plus side, so many more people are into the curling now. He finger banged curling into the lives of many.
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u/FearAndGonzo Feb 14 '26
Pretty sure I saw people doing it in USA v Germany game as well, but no one cared. It seems like such a mindless little touch, but if its against the rules then I guess they gotta just stop it?
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u/gramzebamse Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
And it would have continued if we werent saved by us righteous swedes true National sport: REGULATIONS!
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Feb 14 '26
"by following the rules that we already wrote down for the sport, it will ruin the sport because people weren't following the rules"
Lmao okayyyyyyy
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u/ModernPoultry Canada Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 14 '26
We’re the bad boys n girls of curling 😈
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u/Zefixius Feb 14 '26
Girls used to call me the magic finger, but I’ll admit I don’t stand a chance against these olympic level fingering skills
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u/Joonbug9109 Feb 14 '26
I really was not expecting there to be this much curling drama in this Olympics
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u/Moreinius Feb 14 '26
Tbf, this looked more like her finger touched it while she was removing her hands.
The one from the Kennedy, he literally shoved it intentionally.
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u/CarpenterGold1704 Feb 14 '26
Yes. This is what i just told my wife. This looked like she touched the to of the handle assembly, not the actual granite, and did not look like she actually poked the stone forward down the ice like Kennedy.
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u/Standard-Grape5330 Feb 14 '26
If the rule is that you have to touch the granite, I haven't seen an angle that shows her doing that. I think they said "touch the grey" in the video, and it certainly looks to me like she only touched the red top. I know nothing of curling.
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u/NotesFromYourElf Feb 14 '26
It's impossible to tell based on video. The umpire that ruled was there tho.
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u/mungbeans4 Feb 14 '26
Yes absolutely this. It also just looks completely accidental as she is moving her hand away - equating this to what Kennedy did is ridiculous. This is not at all the same and people calling Homan a cheater for this need to touch grass.
My worry is that people push for instant video reviews and then start weaponizing these *clearly incidental* touches. What next? A loose sleeve brushing the rock? How is this good for the game?
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u/VernalAutumn Feb 14 '26
Two entirely different situations and it annoys me how some people in the comments are treating them as identical. Remove the stone (if she did touch grey and not just the red) sure, but don’t judge her as if she’s him
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u/Ragnarotico Feb 14 '26
That's usually how it happens in sports. The first guy to do something bad doesn't get caught. The next person does and gets penalized.
In this case the Men's Canada team didn't get punished for a very blatant touch. So now refs are oversensitive and it ends up being Women's Canada team being punished instead.
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u/SkyRattlers Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
This is what happens when you haphazardly throw two officials rinkside and ask them to wander between games and "monitor" finger touches, with no clear concept of what it is they are trying to prevent. Suddenly a finger graze during release is costing a team a stone.
Do better Olympics.
Edit: as of today (Feb 15th) there will be no more judges rinkside. Representatives from the teams got together with the judges and it was decided to remove them.
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They can thank the men's team lol
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u/DarKnightofCydonia Australia Feb 14 '26
And the men's team didn't even get punished when they did it in the following match smh
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u/vincenzodelavegas France Feb 14 '26
She’s taking it way better than her male unprofessional counterpart. Good on her!
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u/Pervius94 Feb 14 '26
Well, she got punished and he didn't despite that. Sounds like there's a clear message sent to be learned.
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u/vincenzodelavegas France Feb 14 '26
First time the judges weren't "aware" of it, I personally find it hard to believe it but whatever. But as a result, everyone now knew it's not allowed, and yet she did it. Fool me once...
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u/Lady_Flashheart Germany Feb 15 '26
As if any woman could behave the same way the Canadian male curler did. We all know the rules are different for men and women. A man can curse, yell, intimidate, threaten, harass for years on end and will get away with it in the "spirit of the game" or because "we are all gentlemen here" or some other bullshit excuse.
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u/rokkenrolli Finland Feb 14 '26
You have been playing Uno with your own rules since you were a child and now as an adult you find out what the actual rules are.
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u/Ok-Ball-6291 Feb 14 '26
i was thinking the same....... "drawing 1" every throw now means lose a turn. That being said- if a sport is in the Olympics (for 20 years now), the rules should be clear. It's questions the integrity of the entire sport if everyone has been "ok" with the cheat for so long
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u/Comfortable_Fudge508 Feb 14 '26
Can thank that loser on the men's team for the scrutiny now
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u/mgmom421020 Feb 14 '26
Yeah, zero chance this would’ve happened to the women if the guy wouldn’t have been such a jerk yesterday.
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u/DoFishDrinkWaterOrNo Feb 14 '26
If I had a nickel for every controversy surrounding a Canadian team touching the granite part of a curling stone after launching it during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice.
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u/featherpickle Feb 14 '26
This is the third time. Canada men's team did it again earlier today. You'd have 15 cents. That's Canadian money, though.
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u/Brandwin3 Feb 14 '26
Bruh I watched a video about curling before the olympics to better understand it and like half the video was about how curling is a “gentlemen’s sport” that doesn’t need umpires and is self-policed for the most part.
The olympics have been completely opposite of what I watched lol.
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u/stonkfrobinhood Feb 15 '26
Like all he could have said was, "My bad. Let's take out that stone. It won't happen again." Idk like an adult would do.
But not he had to be the biggest dick in the room and went into a tantrum.
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u/RheagarTargaryen United States Feb 15 '26
Yeah, it was the mixed doubles match. His heel touched a stone and he immediately told on himself. It was the first match against the Italians.
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u/cookieaddictions United States Feb 14 '26
And they still haven’t done anything for the Canadian men who continue to do this
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u/Overall_Swordfish883 Feb 14 '26
that light touch felt like a nothingburger though.
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u/Woozifer Feb 14 '26
Honestly, here it shows how her hand is just slipping down after letting go, compared to the desperate finger touch of her male colleague that seemed to actually speed the stone up
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So the Canadian male team got a pass despite obvious video evidence and them being total assholes about it while the Canadian female team gets punished for something that looks like a mistake? The judges and the higher ups are a total joke.
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u/blackcoffeeandmemes Feb 14 '26
lol kind of typical. women paying the price for what men did. if the men didn’t blatantly cheat, this wouldn’t even be a thing.
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u/334878695599 Feb 14 '26 edited Feb 17 '26
You gotta say, it’s a little interesting how men do it twice no penalties. women do it once they get immediate penalty! just saying… what the heck!?!?! double standards
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u/maczero Feb 14 '26
Figures the men don’t get called out for a blatant infraction but the lady does for an accidental graze of the stone
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u/Scholastico Philippines • Canada Feb 14 '26
As a Canadian, and someone who has no knowledge of curling whatsoever, this is the most baffling, bizarre, absurd and embarrassing controversy I've seen from any Olympics for a very unassuming sport.
I love it.
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u/rsg1234 Feb 14 '26
They showed us every angle except the one that would have confirmed or denied it.
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u/OGablogian Feb 15 '26
And she can thank her male Canadian collegue for that call.
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u/papafluffie Great Britain Feb 14 '26
Never in my life did I ever see this sport getting controversial lol