curling rule book<\/a>\u00a0states: \u201cA stone must be clearly released from the hand before it reaches the hog line at the delivery end. If the player fails to do so, the stone is immediately removed from play by the delivering team.\u201d<\/p>\nRule 9(a) states: \u201cIf a moving stone is touched, or is caused to be touched, by the team to which it belongs, or by their equipment, the touched stone is removed from play immediately by that team. A double touch by the person delivering the stone, prior to the hog line at the delivering end, is not considered a violation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in February at the Olympics, Eriksson sparked a heated debate throughout the curling world by accusing Kennedy of touching the rock after his release.<\/p>\n
Eriksson went at Kennedy, accusing him of double-touching the rock as he released, saying his hand was still touching the rock after the hog line. The two swore at each other continuously.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t done it once,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll show you a video after the game,\u201d Eriksson replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow about you walking around on my peel dancing around the house here,\u201d Kennedy shot back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll show you a video when it\u2019s two metres over the hog line,\u201d Eriksson responded before the teams actually started curling again in the 10th end.<\/p>\n
Canada, skipped by Brad Jacobs, went on to win the match and eventually took home the gold medal at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
But the drama continued throughout the tournament, and even moved over to the women\u2019s side, when Canada\u2019s Rachel Homan was also accused of cheating.<\/p>\n
While the debate divided many in the sport, it was also great publicity and caused plenty of new fans to tune in.<\/p>\n
The timing of Eriksson\u2019s latest video is also great for the new Rock League, which begins on Monday in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Eriksson is a member of the Alpine Curling Club, which takes on Jacobs\u2019 Shield Curling Club in the first-ever match in Rock League history on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought the Olympic \u201cdouble-touch\u201d curling drama between Canada and Sweden was over, think again. Swedish curler…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-585257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}