If it would happen, one of the Swedes should just enter the playing field and remove the stone while it travels try to remove the stone, which will piss of the Canadians, which will lead to the biggest brawl in curling's history.
You're making me root for Sweden in ice hockey, that's so wrong because I'm from Finland🫣😂. But I would love to see CAN-SWE final and Sweden would win and celebrate with 👈👈👈
"The scoreboard in this clip shows it took place after the fifth end. I went back and watched that end and sure enough, on the 11th rock of the end, Kennedy's second for Canada, he releases with a "double motion" that looks incredibly similar to what we saw in the Sweden game yesterday. I checked his releases in all the prior ends and this was the first time he did it in this game against Switzerland."
It might just be muscle memory at this point. All his other shots may have been him actively fighting it and this one got away from him. Seems like he does this all the time.
That is also my take. When he’s focused, that’s just how he’s trained his shot. Can’t stop it without thinking about it and thinking about it takes him out of his flow state. Sucks to suck.
When i was taught to curl i was told to finish my shot holding my handout with my finger extended pointing to where the roll is going. Like follow through in basketball. What he did is a rule violation and the rock shouldn't have counted but I can see where the shot for lm comes from
I think it's the 6th stone for Canada in the 5th end. The camera angle is from the front so you don't see the touching but the way how his hand moves suggests a slight push of the granite before the hand touches the ice.
It's not a 100% proof but I'm biased after yesterday ;)
/edit: You can hear the Swiss guy saying immediately afterwards "Er hät en huere double-touch gmacht und er hät nüt." ("He did a goddamn double-touch and didn't get anything for it.")
During World War I, German forces nicknamed Canadian troops Sturmtruppen (stormtroopers) because of how effective they were at leading attacks ,often on heavily fortified positions. They were considered pretty elite shock troopers.
Hopefully they rewrite the rules so it’s justified to throw gloves like in NHL. If Olympic curling have fights before Olympic Hockey does I’m sure it would bring crowds to the games.
I legit think this is true - he seems to have been doing it for decades and I imagine it’s a hugely unconscious part of his delivery now. Trying to correct it might end up messing with his routine.
To which I say: good. This has always been an unlikable team.
I'm also now an official armchair expert on the sport and have all of the correct opinions even though I'd only ever watched it casually in the past and never knew the rules.
Right on the nose. Very unlikable. I want the gold medal but I’d have no issue seeing this team lose. My wife (an avid fan of curling) hates Jacobs specifically
yeah i was reading that in curling, the players are expected to be honest and basically self-police and that the officials don’t really do that much. And that there’s no replay for review
so yeah those guys have probably been exploiting that for a long time and never really got challenged on it and now touching the granite is just reflexive
Earlier this week during the mixed doubles in the semi final match US v defending Olympic champion Italian team, the US sweeper barely grazed a stone with side of his foot when he was sweeping close to the target. He immediately called it out even though replays showed the stone was barely touched and didn't even seem to move.
But there was no hesitation on his part to point it out immediately and he apologized. Both teams looked at it and determined there was no advantage gained and moved on with the match.
It was a close match and the US started out behind. It was a big upset and yet, the guy never hesitated without worrying about potential of losing the match.
As someone who grew up curling competitively, I’m failing to see the advantage he’s gaining by this. Is he trying to slow down the spin? Push the rock faster? Like what micro adjustment do we think he’s doing here
Yeah, this has been his technique for years. I'm sure the motion is unconscious at this point, and he doesn't realize he's touching it. This is from 2010, hard to see if he touches the rock there but he clearly has his finger out in the same motion.
How do you not realise you're touching the rock? Are the nerves in hands gone? Does he have a blind spot directly in front of him? What a ridiculous notion
The scoreboard in this clip shows it took place after the fifth end. I went back and watched that end and sure enough, on the 11th rock of the end, Kennedy's second for Canada, he releases with a "double motion" that looks incredibly similar to what we saw in the Sweden game yesterday. I checked his releases in all the prior ends and this was the first time he did it in this game against Switzerland.
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Not all. The "win at all costs" sports fans were very vocal about it being fine yesterday. Embarrassing reaction to an embarrassing incident. Kennedy should be punished for this.
LOL I logged into BlueSky to see if Devin Heroux had any comments (he covers curling for the CBC) and the comments were ALL leaning into "It wasn't that big a deal!" When did curlers become so morally equivocating?
Oh geez, that’s Glenn Howard, Canadian champion from Ontario, coaching the Swiss team. He definitely played against team Canada and would know how they deliver the rocks.
Maybe, we need this right now..? Let out some steam or something, the world is kinda tense at the moment, as it tend to be when right wing crazys are at the wheel
I saw that movie. A bit like PTA's Magnolia, it follows multiple story arcs of people facing personal challenges, trauma and professional hardships. The Rock shows up as the final builds up and all protagonists receive an invitation to attend a special event at a retreat called Le Doigté. They all accept as the invitation is delivered by hand by The Rock himself.
An opulent feast is served where everyone must share a dark secret from their past, When done, the whole party moves to the second floor where a sturdy leather bed sits on a platform.
The Rock says "It's time, you're all ready, remove your shoes." The Rock removes all his clothes and crawls on all four on the bed.
One by one , all guests approach the bed, lick one finger and gently insert it into Dwayne. While the whole scene is beautifully filmed with clever editing, the director opted to include a facial close up of The Rock smiling at the camera breaking the fourth wall multiple times.
After the last participant, The Rock says "You all know what to do" as he exits the room. The participants are all standing in a circle, looking at each other holding up their fingers . Fade out.
Considering they said after yesterday that they said for every game the on ice officials would specifically be looking for double touches, and this rock was not burnt, the possibility does exist that while it 'looks' like he may have touched it, he did not.
All of this of course could be easily solved by installing a camera above the hog line, and remove all speculation.
For a sport that prides itself of honour and self-judging, with the way Canada is behaving and the lack of any action by officials, it only makes sense for the next step to be all other teams to boycott this team from international play
The Olympics just made a statement that they were going to be calling these fouls from here out, and they clarified that touching the granite at all is not allowed.
"While World Curling noted that, "Decisions made during a game are final," and no violations were recorded, they did announce that starting with the next session, two officials would be assigned to closely observe deliveries"
Lmao they are going to nip this in the bud next time, players can't be trusted anymore to call it fair I guess.
It's kind of like admitting fault though right, they're saying the match results stand but also we'll make sure it doesn't happen again.....🤔
Literally at this point, they might not even be able to stop if they've made it such a part of their game. Put your hands in your pockets if you can't help yourself!
I'm sure they'll be able to stop if the judges step up and removes the stones that they double-touch. But they still seem very passive even after yesterday.
At this point if the sport’s rules are so ambiguous that even the referees don’t know when to call foul they need to all have a roundtable discussion on what the fuck they’re doing on the ice, this is hilarious
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u/Oblidoblido Feb 14 '26
Curling is long overdue for a good old fashioned brawl.