Canadian men's curling team wins gold medal after being embroiled in cheating controversy

The Canadian men bushed Britain for golden successful Olympic curling Saturday 9-6 aft brushing speech accusations of cheating during the round-robin signifier astatine the Milan Cortina Games.

The chaos began Feb. 13, erstwhile Canada bushed Sweden 8-6, and Canadian third Marc Kennedy and Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson got into it. 

Eriksson had accused Kennedy of an amerciable process known arsenic double-touching stones aft releasing them astatine the hog line. Kennedy responded with expletives. 

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

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Gold medalists Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert of Team Canada observe a triumph successful the men's golden medal lucifer against Great Britain astatine Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Feb. 21, 2026, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images)

The adjacent day, the Canadians accused the Swedes of improperly filming Kennedy’s delivery. Team Sweden denied immoderate inappropriate filming, claiming the video came from the Swedish nationalist broadcaster.

Members of Switzerland besides accused the Canadians of double-touching, and akin accusations reached the women's competition. (The Canadian women defeated the United States successful the bronze medal game).

World Curling yet concluded that "no violations were recorded" during the umpires’ observations that followed the claims.

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)

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"Game umpires are situated astatine the extremity of each expanse and physically cannot spot each transportation infraction," World Curling said. "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 added, noting that video replay is not utilized during games and an umpire’s telephone is final.

Britain, though, was besides accused of cheating. Britain was taking connected Germany successful round-robin play erstwhile officials said Scottish curler Bobby Lammie touched a chromatic aft releasing it down the ice. Britain had a chromatic removed owed to the double-touching but inactive ended up with a 9-4 win.

World Curling said, arsenic a effect of the accusations against Canada, it would designate 2 officials to determination betwixt the 4 curling matches during each circular but noted it was "not possible" to person umpires stationed astatine each hog line, the enactment wherever stones indispensable beryllium released by hand.

Canada's Ben Hebert, right, and Brad Jacobs observe becoming Olympic champions aft defeating Great Britain successful the men's curling golden medal crippled astatine the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games successful Cortina d'Ampezzo Feb. 21, 2026. (Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images)

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It was Canada's 4th golden successful men’s curling and archetypal since 2014, erstwhile it besides bushed Great Britain to headdress disconnected 3 consecutive Olympic golds. It’s heartbreak again for Great Britain, which settled for metallic 4 years ago.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos, Jackson Thompson, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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