Winter Olympian shouts ‘f*** off’ at rival over damning dishonest declare in wild scenes
There were wild scenes in the normally ice-cool world of curling when the Canadian and Swedish teams ended up in a war of words after a cheating accusation was launched
There was an exchange of words between Canada and Sweden’s curling teams(Image: BBC)
Canadian curler Marc Kennedy told Swedish rival Oskar Eriksson to “f*** off” after being accused of cheating in their fiery Winter Olympics battle.
Canada, led by skip Brad Jacobs, clinched an 8-6 win over Sweden, who had recently suffered a defeat at the hands of Team GB in one of their initial matches. However, the game’s main controversy arose when Eriksson repeatedly alleged that Jacobs was touching his stones after releasing them – a move considered illegal in curling once the stone has crossed the hog line.
Jacobs, incensed by the cheating allegations, fired back with some choice words for his opponents, who continued to press the judge about multiple allegations of double-touching, as the infraction is called.
The Canadian, seemingly taken aback by Eriksson’s accusations, pointed at himself before retorting: “I haven’t done it once. You can f*** off.”
Undeterred by his opponent’s colourful language, the Swedish player stood his ground and shouted back: “I’ll show you a video after the game. I’ll show you a video where it’s two meters over the hog line.”
Eriksson continued to voice his grievances about the supposed violation throughout the match and was also heard addressing the judge: “You saw it. You saw the touching, right? So is he allowed to do it or not? That’s the question.”
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Even Eriksson’s team-mate Niklas Edin began backing his colleague’s protests, marching up to the judge and stating: “There’s no way you can do that,” a remark which sparked Canadian star Ben Herbert to initiate a counter-protest of his own, instructing the judge to ‘keep an eye’ on some alleged double-touching from Eriksson.
In the sixth end, the Swede’s frustrations erupted once more. This time, slow-motion footage showed Canadian star Kennedy releasing the stone and then nudging it again, just as it slid across the hog line, which would have been a violation if noticed.
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Regrettably for the Swedes, the judge stated they could not definitively determine if a double-touch had taken place. The heated match led World Curling to issue a statement, clarifying the rules.
They wrote: “A 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.
“If a hog line violation stone is not immediately removed and strikes another stone, the delivered stone must be removed from play by the delivering team, and any displaced stones are replaced, by the nonoffending team, to their positions prior to the violation taking place.”
Following the match, Kennedy, a Winter Olympic gold medallist from the 2010 Vancouver games, expressed his frustration with the repeated complaints from the Swedes. He said: “There’s hog line devices on there.
“I don’t know. And he’s still accusing us of cheating. I didn’t like it. So I told him where to stick it.”
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