There’s no fighting in curling!
Until now.
It was quite a scene on the ice Friday as the Canadian and Swedish curling teams got into it.
It was near the end of the match when Sweden’s vice-captain, Oskar Eriksson, accused his Canadian counterpart, Marc Kennedy, of cheating. Kennedy had a strong reaction.
“You can f*** off,” Kennedy was heard saying. “I haven’t done it once, don’t chirp!”
Both sides had been complaining about the other’s releases when tensions boiled over.
To catch you up, there’s a rule in curling where you can’t touch a released stone after it passes the hog line, a thick line painted across the ice 21 feet from “where each team stands. “the house.” That’s the target area.
Twitter had a field day with its frame-by-frame circling of the alleged violations. A statement from Olympics officials, however, found no wrongdoing on Canada’s part, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ultimately, Canada won the match 8-6. The United States lost to Canada 6-3 earlier in the Winter Olympics. The men face Germany in a preliminary match on Saturday.