CANADA -SWEDEN- CURLING : SPORTS HONOUR

TORONTO : NATIONS' curling feud simmers as league is born. Relations Between Canada and Sweden are strained after the Olympics controversy.

Two months after the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, the controversy that rocked the curling tournament has not been swept away.

During the Olympics, the Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson repeatedly called out Canada - specifically  Marc Kennedy, who threw third stones for Canada - for double-touching a rock on the granite part after the point at which players must release the stone [ known as the hog line ].

This ignited a firestorm in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, the Olympic host city, and prompted officials to monitor athletes' stone deliveries and led to changes to the sport's rulebook.

A few weeks ago, while Sweden was competing at the world curling championships, a video of Eriksson demonstrating how a double-touch infraction can affect a rock's trajectory appeared in Swedish media.

Brad Jacobs, the Canadian skip who led the team to the Olympic gold medal despite the controversy said he would not let go.

'' Something needs to happen here,''  Jacobs said recently. '' There needs to be accountability. Everything that happened at the Olympics with this controversy was not handled properly, starting from the top down.

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