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Olympic curling gets ugly with Boopgate

Gail P Sherman
Feb 17, 2026
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Cursing and controversy rarely mix with curling or Canada. But a tense game between the Canadian and Swedish men’s teams at the Milano Cortina Olympics delivered both. The incident shocked fans of the typically sportsmanlike game.

The Swedes told officials that Canadian Marc Kennedy had touched the stone’s gra…

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