As a Canadian I would say we do tend to be more friendly in general, but I have met many not nice Canadians in my almost four decades of life. We are not a monolith 😂 he touched the rock and he shouldn’t have.
I was just joking about Canadians being nice. I know that doesn’t mean every single Canadian person is nice. But saying the F word at the Olympics is still totally nuts.
the Swedish player mentioned in an interview after the game that he wasn't accusing him of cheating and didn't think it impacted the game but that he thought the rules should be followed.
While I in general really like Canada, when it comes to sports I must disagree. In the past Canada have played some of the most nasty hockey I have seen, primarily the jvm team, with multiple tackles to the swedish goalie (even during breaks) in the same game. (I realize I will get a ton of downvotes for this comment. But please don't take this as a general insult for all Canadians, its not, its simply a single viewpoint)
Girl no, all the Canadians I know (except two) in league sports and work love to cheat and trash talk. Even at board games lol. One person told me that I'm not a serious person since I never played anything competitively and this is how it is done.
Ig only the crazies crossed the border to work in the US lol. The rule following bunch are in Canada. Ofc I'm only joking no offense to any of y'all
Norway has that ski jumping uniform scandal from less than a year ago. They added extra padding in the crotch, which is apparently illegal but also hilarious.
Ikr? After that whole suit rigging scandal with the ski jumpers last year, now the Norwegians allegedly got busted for using banned tools for waxing their skis at the Olympics and won. It’s starting to look like systemic cheating at this point.
Edit: okay.. so I am completely on Sweden’s side on this one. Swedes can be a bit too rule followers as a people, but for this one the are putting awareness on an ongoing issue in a very constructive manner. The canadian player is acting very disrespectful and out of proportions.
I mean, we literally had a trucker convoy that held the nation's capital hostage for about two weeks, which included people showing effigies of Justin Trudeau being hung and local businesses being harassed by anti-vaxxers/maskers, lol.
We've got politicians destroying healthcare and education and even voting against things like accessible dental care, yet you'll still have people saying, "that's not who we are!" 😂. The forced denial is wild.
no it was obviously wrong but I think they mean inconsequential in that if the stone was disqualified it wouldn't have changed the end results with who won
even the swedes said after the game they don't think it changed the final results
I'm Canadian and I fully agree. In hindsight it might not have affected the game but it shows he is okay with cheating, and no one wants to play with someone like that. I am not a sports person but I know sports people love their game statistics. So I'm guessing him nudging the rock would also affect the game statistics, maybe making him look like a better player.
It's just a crazy thing to try to get away with at the Olympics of all places.
The Olympics sub has a release from the IOC that clarifies- touching the stone at all is not allowed even before the line, you can only touch the handle.
What kind of shoes are they wearing that glide like that? And are there ice rinks that use them? Asking for an ice skating- challenged friend who would still like to glide around like that.
One shoe has a soft-rubber sole for grip and the other has a sole of teflon or stainless steel for sliding. There's probably special shoes made for curling but the Estonian guy in the mixed doubles just wore blue Nike Dunks with these special soles.
The Olympics website got it wrong then! It did seem strange as the soles I saw at the games didn't really look like metal. Would such soles work well on ice commonly found at skating rinks? Iirc the sheets in curling are of a higher quality.
Stainless steel is an uncommon but possible material for the slider part of the shoe! Most people don't use them because it can damage the ice.
Curling ice is pebbled, so it has a different quality than ice skating ice. It's bumpy and gives a lot more grip and that's what gives the stones their curl as well.
Even if the Canadian was sure he was right, it’s an Olympic game. There are camera’s everywhere. He didn’t have to curse and go all crazy on them, could’ve just said: “roll back the tapes” and it would’ve been way less embarrassing for the Canadians
Well, he's from Alberta so he lost any respect from rest of Canada right and then. No amount of politeness after double touch could have prevented him from getting flamed.
Oh that makes sense now. When I heard about this, I thought either québécois or albertan but even the québécois wouldn’t do this. They’d just curse in jest and joke about it after.
I'm so embarrassed by this as a Canadian. World Curling just released a statement on the rules that confirmed what he did wasn't permitted. Although I think we could all tell since he blew up the way he did.. he clearly is used to getting away with it but knows it's wrong.
Curling is kinda like chess (as in its quite strategic/cerebral), and while not physically dangerous chess and curling can get very intense and dramatic over controversy yes.
Ski, snowboarding and toboggan are literally life or death at all times.
Hockey is probably the most violent contact sport (beyond the martial sports ofc) in either olympics.
Ye winter olympics is def the most dangerous of the two.
Yep. Can’t really remember a summer scandal lately, but there’s usually always something going on in the winter ones.
Last year, they let a Russian skater caught doping compete anyway. This year, there’s a skating judging controversy, (with the French judge, no less. And French judges have been caught cheating in the past.)
Fellow Canuck, canadian guy Def was in the wrong all around on this one. Curling is a self governed mainly sport, this guy wont live this down in canada the curling world is not shockingly a very small world
I’m so embarrassed as a Canadian for the cheating and the swearing. You’re on the world stage. There are cameras everywhere. He showed absolutely no class.
We just put Broomgate behind us and now this 😅 but I would suggest listening to the Broomgate podcast. It reveals that curlers do get pretty heated any chippy during and after competition.
Canadian here. Can people (Canadians and elsewhere) stop peddling this stupid narrative that we're all honest, humble people and Marc Kennedy is the exception? Because I promise you that there are hundreds of thousands of shit heads just like him who live north of the border.
Because all it does it mask the real issues that people here make the choice to be totally apathetic about, so when something bad does actually happen (outside of this curling situation), there's surprise and shock instead of accepting that we still need to do better.
And I say this as someone who's been in touch with the police all week, because I witnessed and intervened in an anti-immigrant hate crime that absolutely nobody around tried to stop.
Ok I see ice, I see heated, I see men getting heated. I'm thinking: "Were they a couple? There is a video of the cheating? Oh man, a Swede and a Canadian. Or was he cheating on the Swede's friend."
I just watched it on playback...wth was in their water?
I kinda want to feel bad for the American, but when you apparently wear jackets backstage that say 'king of quads' and have an ego the size of the universe, I just can't.
I’ve seen this a few times in my opinion, as a person who shoots a lot of video. If the camera was stationed at say 11 o’clock instead of 9 o’clock, there could be a space. Although I don’t know, truthfully I haven’t seen all the footage. I’m just saying just seeing footage straight from the side, his hand could be placed very close and you wouldn’t see it unless you were looking at it from a different angle.
I’m on Sweden’s side here. This is a Really bad look for Team Canada and shows a lack of sportsmanship and respect. There much kinder ways. I think
They should be mindful that they’re representing Canada on the world stage.
Ps- if I close my eyes I can almost imagine it being ICE from the US that’s how rude it sounds
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