Olympic Curling Chaos: Why World Curling Pulled the Umpires Amid Rising Controversy
From then on, the federation said, two umpires would step out from behind the courtside table and watch the “hog line” — the point at which curlers must release the granite stone down the sheet of ice — from close proximity. That way, they’d be able to more closely check for illegal double-touches.
In just a day, officials called two double-touch infractions, by Rachel Homan of Canada and Bobby Lammie of Britain, removing their stones from play.
It is exceedingly rare for stones to be removed from competition with that frequency.


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