Each stone has a sensor on it to ensure players release their grip on the handle before the thick green line that runs across the ice, known as the hog line.<\/p>\n
If they do, the sensor flashes green. If not, a red light shows.<\/p>\n
Kennedy’s stone showed green, but Eriksson and his Swedish team-mates thought they saw the Canadian give the stone an extra push with his finger after letting the handle go. The video evidence appears to back that up.<\/p>\n
But, as BBC Sport curling commentator Steve Cram asked former world champion Jackie Lockhart, is it actually cheating and does it make a difference?<\/p>\n
“You should not be touching the stone after you’ve released it,” Lockhart said. “If you touch it with a broom, it’s burned and removed.<\/p>\n
“He’s released that stone, then poked it with his finger \u2013 I’m not sure why. Is it to push it a little bit harder because he felt he didn’t give it enough?”<\/p>\n
But will anything come of it?<\/p>\n
When the teams came off the ice, they would have signed a declaration saying they are happy with the result. So, unless a protest was submitted at that stage – and as far as we know there wasn’t – the result will stand.<\/p>\n
But what will this mean for the Canadians – who are considered medal contenders and have won their first three matches – in the rest of the Games?<\/p>\n
“The question we should be asking is if Oskar is challenging him, has he [Kennedy] done it before?” Lockhart added.<\/p>\n
“Have they been doing it at other Championships and now they’re being called out on it?<\/p>\n
“I’m a bit disappointed with the Canadians if that’s what they’re doing. We’ll all be looking now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each stone has a sensor on it to ensure players release their grip on the handle before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-425268","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}