Canada's curling team accuses Sweden of filming violation in response to Olympic cheating allegations

Canada's curling squad has fired backmost astatine Sweden aft the Swedes accused the Canadians of cheating astatine the Winter Olympics. 

After Sweden accused Canada of double-touching stones connected Friday, igniting a planetary controversy, Canadian curler Marc Kennedy leveled allegations against the Swedes of improperly filming his delivery. 

"They person travel up with a program present astatine the Olympics, arsenic acold arsenic I know, to drawback teams successful the enactment astatine the hog line," Kennedy told reporters. 

"This was planned, close from the connection spell yesterday. From the words that were being said by their coaches and the mode they were moving to the officials, it was benignant of evident that thing was going on, and they were trying to drawback america successful an act.

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Sweden's Rasmus Wranaa, left, reacts adjacent to Canada's Ben Hebert during a men's curling round-robin betwixt Canada and Sweden during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium successful Cortina d’Ampezzo Feb. 13, 2026.  (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)

"I cognize we’re not the lone squad that they’ve done that to," Kennedy added. "So, I deliberation this was — I don’t cognize what the connection is for that — but similar a premeditated program to effort to drawback us."

Curling Canada CEO Nolan Thiessen told reporters helium thinks video was changeable extracurricular of the strict rules for Olympic filming.

"I was amazed that determination was a unrecorded video connected the hog enactment extracurricular of OBS rules," Thiessen said. "That seems unusual to me."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Sweden's curling squad for comment. 

According to the National Review, Team Sweden denied immoderate inappropriate filming, claiming the video came from the Swedish nationalist broadcaster.

Sweden's Niklas Edin said "absolutely not" erstwhile asked astir the allegations from Team Canada.

"We’ve been saying this for possibly seven, 8 years oregon something," helium said of the hog enactment issue. "The media unit decided to spot the camera connected the hog enactment to spot what was happening, to explicate it to the radical watching. 

"It was Swedish media, the radical covering the crippled that did that, we were told, astatine least. I person nary idea, but that’s what we were told afterwards."

The Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) released a connection saying it did not nutrient the video that appears to amusement Canada curlers double-touching stones aft releasing them astatine the hog enactment that has circulated crossed societal media. 

The OBS added, "However, to clarify the wide framework, OBS arsenic good arsenic immoderate decently accredited media rights holder that has acquired broadcast rights from the International Olympic Committee is permitted to movie wrong Olympic venues."

The feud came to a boiling constituent during Friday's lucifer erstwhile Kennedy and Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson got into it aft Eriksson accused Kennedy of an amerciable process called double-touching.

Kennedy shouted astatine Eriksson, "I haven’t done it once. You tin f--- off."

Eriksson replied, "I’ll amusement you a video aft the game. I’ll amusement you a video wherever it’s 2 meters implicit the hog line."

Both sides appealed to the officials, but nary results were changed.

Swiss curlers person made akin comments astir Canada. Swiss curler Pablo Lachat-Couchepin was captured connected a broadcast talking to his manager during a fifth-end interruption successful which helium mentioned helium witnessed double-touching. 

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Canada's Ben Hebert, Brett Gallant and Marc Kennedy vie during a men's curling round-robin lucifer against Switzerland astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

"I don’t privation to absorption excessively overmuch connected it, but helium double-touched, and the referee saw it," helium said, according to The Toronto Star. It was unclear if those concerns were raised to officials.

The contention adjacent bled onto the women’s broadside connected Saturday. 

Canadian curler Rachel Homan had her chromatic removed aft an authoritative ruled she had touched it again aft releasing the handle. Homan protested, but, according to World Curling’s rules, determination are nary authoritative replays, and the official’s last telephone stands. 

According to The Athletic, video replay of the incidental did amusement Homan’s digit grazing the rock.

World Curling has released a connection addressing the claims archetypal made by Sweden connected Friday and Kennedy’s consequent reaction.

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Canada's Brad Jacobs and Marc Kennedy successful enactment during the men's curling round-robin league against Sweden astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

"Game umpires are situated astatine the extremity of each expanse and physically cannot spot each transportation infraction. However, erstwhile they are made alert of transportation issues, crippled umpires are positioned to observe the transportation for 3 ends. During this play of reflection successful the Friday evening game, determination were nary violations recorded," the connection said.

The sports governing assemblage besides addressed 2 regularisation concerns, including "double-touching" and touching the granite. According to the rules, players tin retouch the grip aggregate times, but "touching the grip aft the hog enactment is not allowed and volition effect successful the chromatic being removed from play." 

Additionally, the chromatic volition beryllium removed from play if the granite of the chromatic is touched astatine each during "forward motion." 

As a effect of the allegations, World Curling said 2 officials volition beryllium positioned to observe each deliveries opening with Saturday’s games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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