2026 Winter Olympics: Cheating, insults and illicit photography – what’s next in line for curling?

Then the story took a different turn when the Canadiens returned to the ice on Saturday. Controversy erupted over Kennedy again, as Switzerland reported him to the referee for the same offense in their 9-5 win.

Once again, no action was taken against the 44-year-old four-time Olympics veteran.

At that point, the curling world needed to act. They announced that they would deploy additional officials for the remainder of the games to check double touches.

Canadian women’s skip Rachel Holman was pressured by a double touch. Team GB’s Bobby Lammy also fell victim.

Both incidents were cases of a long finger falling onto the granite after releasing the handle, rather than an intentional touch, so there is no suggestion of deceptive intent. Moreover, its monitoring seemed sporadic.

The teams were angry and complained. The curling world relented. The protocol was changed on Sunday. Teams can now ask for a stone handover to be monitored if they have doubts, and for a minimum of three goals.

In fact, this was also done randomly.

So what does the Net do about this? After all, this is a sport in which they determine which stone is closest to the target using an actual large compass.

One sign of progress is electrical sensors to measure whether stones have been released before the pig line, but could it drag itself into the modern era and use video technology?

Team GB captain Hammy McMillan thinks so.

“VAR or Hawk-Eye is used and every team has a challenge or two, so you have to be absolutely sure that someone has done it.” [violation]said the Scot.

“I think that would be really cool, and maybe bring the game of curling a little more modern. I think video review could be the next thing, as teams have challenges.”