British curlers join Canada in Olympic curling controversy

The contention successful Olympic curling expanded connected Sunday arsenic Team Great Britain’s men’s squad was deed with the aforesaid usurpation that wounded the Canadians 2 days successful a row.

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.

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Britain's Bobby Lammie successful enactment during the men's curling circular robin league against Germany, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026.  (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The contented archetypal sparked Friday nighttime erstwhile the Swedish men’s squad accused Canada of "double-touching." A chromatic was past removed successful the Canadian women’s matchup against Switzerland. Videos circulating astir societal media appeared to amusement some Canadian curlers committing the penalties. But some teams denied wrongdoing.

World Curling said opening Saturday 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 enactment – the enactment wherever stones indispensable beryllium released by hand.

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Britain's Bobby Lammie successful enactment during the men's curling circular robin league against Germany, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. ( (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

On Sunday, World Curling said 2 umpires who antecedently were actively monitoring deliveries volition present lone show athletes’ deliveries astatine the petition of the competing teams.

Sweden’s Johanna Heldin, an alternate connected the women’s team, disquieted astir the gait of play being disrupted with the other surveillance.

"If they bring that in, I deliberation it astir apt disrupts the velocity of play," said Johanna Heldin, the alternate for the Swedish women's team. "We’ve ever been a crippled that tries to play by the rules and person that precocious sportsmanship level, truthful hopefully we tin fig that backmost out."

American Tara Peterson expressed enactment for much replay.

"There’s instances wherever an instant replay would beryllium huge," she said.

Canada's Marc Kennedy successful enactment during the men's curling circular robin league against China, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026.  (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

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Until Sunday, the allegations had been constricted to Canadian curlers. But now, British curlers person besides been engulfed successful the controversy.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.