Olympic Curling Chaos: Why World Curling Pulled the Umpires Amid Rising Controversy
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By Sunday afternoon, players and coaches were fed up and World Curling changed its policy after the meeting.
“When the players started complaining, it puts them in a tough position because they want to do their jobs and listen to the players that think that there’s a problem out there,” said Emma Miskew, a Canadian curler. “I’m happy with how the discussion went and what the ruling came to.”
Olympic curlers say the double-touch is not a big deal
Several Olympic curlers said that double-touching did not necessarily reveal a nefarious desire to cheat, and that penalizing a quick and accidental graze of the granite could be over the top.


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