Ping Huang

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Up First from NPR · Cheating in the most-polite sport, curling and what is "sledhead?" · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

In a match on Friday, the Swedes accused a Canadian player of touching the stone after he released it, keeping his finger on the stone as it crossed the hog line, which is a big no in curling.

Okay, so there's two things about the situation, A. Number one is the allegation itself, and number two is how the Canadians responded.

So, for some context, as you mentioned, curling is a super polite sport,

There is something called the spirit of curling, which is like their code of ethics.

It's all about good sportsmanship.

And one critical part of that is that if you have a violation, you need to call it yourself.

You call your own fouls.

So if a stone gets touched by anything after it crosses the hog line by a hand, a foot, a broom, you're supposed to call it on your own.

You're supposed to call a violation and take it out of play.

In this case, the Swede said that the Canadian player had touched the stone beyond the hog line and that he'd done it not just once, but several times over the course of the game.

Okay, so the Canadians denied it, and then it got super heated.

So Canadian curler Mark Kennedy hurled an expletive at the Swedes between the ninth and the tenth inning.

He told them to buzz off, but in stronger words, on live television.

And this, in the world of curling, was totally shocking, because as you mentioned, it's a very polite sport.

It's usually polite, wholesome, very family-friendly.

So Canada says that this was a strategy to get them off their game, and they have suggested that they continue to be persecuted.

So on Saturday, Canada's women's team got a rock pulled for the same exact reason, and their skip, Rachel Homan, said that they might be getting targeted for having the maple leaf on their backs.

So, A, I think the problem is that he was touching any part of the rock at all as it was passing the hog line.

That was like the main violation.

You know, his finger was still held on the line, according to the Swedes, not according to Canada, but according to the Swedes, as it crossed that green line that you see on the screen.

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