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Olympic Curling Chaos: Why World Curling Pulled the Umpires Amid Rising Controversy

Olympic Curling Chaos: Why World Curling Pulled the Umpires Amid Rising Controversy

World Curling rethinks officiating

The saga began Friday, when Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian curler Marc Kennedy of breaking the rules by touching the rock again after initially releasing it down the sheet of ice. Kennedy’s expletive-laden outburst drew widespread attention, as did the matches that tend to fall off the radar outside the Olympics.

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World Curling decided it needed to double down on game surveillance, even though it was already midway through the Olympics men’s and women’s round-robin competition.

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