Ping Huang
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After today, Stolz has one more race, the mass start on Saturday.
The top three sports people have bought tickets to are ice hockey, biathlon, and figure skating.
Danny O'Shea is captain of the U.S.
He says the crowds help him focus when the pressure's on.
Nearly 1.3 million tickets to Olympic events have been sold, according to the Milan Cortina Organizing Committee, which tracks these numbers.
Tickets to ski mountaineering have sold out, and the attendance stands for speed skating and men's alpine skiing have been especially full.
On streaming services, this Olympics has far outpaced the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
In Italy, more than half the population is tuned in.
He told them to buzz off, but in stronger words, on live television.
And this, in the worlds of curling, was totally shocking.
All right, A. So in Curling, players throw a rock down a sheet of ice, and you have to release it before it gets to something called the hog line.
If you don't release it before then, it gets disqualified, it gets burned, you're supposed to take it out of play.
Now, the controversy here is over the allegation of a double touch.
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.