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Olympic Curling controversy widens as Britain is accused of the same violation as Canada
World Curling changed its umpire policy after calls against British and Canadian teams for double-touching stones, with no video replay used despite split opinions among players.
- On Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, increased surveillance led to removal of a British men's stone after Scottish curler Bobby Lammie allegedly touched it in a game against Germany.
- The dispute began Friday night with an allegation against the Canadian men's curling team and a day later a stone was removed from the Canadian women's curling team match.
- The roaming-umpire policy was active when World Curling directed two roaming umpires to monitor four matches Saturday, but the federation backpedaled Sunday, adopting a teams' request policy and reaffirming no video replay policy.
- Olympic curlers are split on video replay proposals, with Johanna Heldin saying it `probably disrupts the speed of play` while Tara Peterson `absolutely` supports it.
- Rule-Wise, `double-touching` is illegal, and some curlers say the infraction has rarely been enforced this intensely, making it difficult to determine guilt in past competitions.
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Olympic Curling controversy widens as Britain is accused of the same violation as Canada
The curling controversy at the Winter Olympics widened Sunday as increased surveillance of the matches resulted in the removal of a stone thrown by the British men’s team for the same alleged violation that burned the Canadians two days in a row.
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Curling controversy widens amid higher surveillance as Britain accused of same infraction as Canada
World Curling has stepped up surveillance of matches at the Winter Olympics after an emerging controversy. Officials removed a stone thrown by Britain’s Bobby...
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- 34% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
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