Men's Curling Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Josh 13,411]

1 minute ago, stepansevs said:

So why does he do it, if there is not any benefit?

Just muscle memory, he's been delivering stones like this for his entire career. He's even done it against teams ranked way below him, that he would beat regardless. IRRC Hasselborg has said that they don't agree with Edin that touching granite impacts the game at all (same with Lachat on Schwaller, and I'm sure there's a few others I'm missing), and them and Edin are not only good friends but represent Sweden together. Brushing the granite with your finger has no impact on the speed or direction of the stone, and even if it did Jacobs isn't the only one to do it and it happens more times than people realize... 

 

I wanted to respond to this, but I'd rather not talk about it again like I said

[Josh 13,411]

17 hours ago, intoronto said:

Don't be dramatic "destroyed the sport" can you explain how?

Exactly, what he did might've been a rule infraction of sorts, but the rulebook wasn't clear for one, and it also didn't do anything to impact the game.

 

China at Men's Worlds last year, on the other hand... 

[stepansevs 219]

24 minutes ago, intoronto said:

lol, that's not cheating, especially since WC came out and did not disqualify the team. 

The same as in China in WCH, right? They were not DSQ too... In curling there should be other fair atmosphere and players should not do this illegal shots and moves. And if yes, they should accept their own fauls.

It is sad that especially for this biggest curling country, they need to do this cheating. It is my biggest disappointing in this olympics that they killing this beautiful sport 

[intoronto 6,884]

2 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

The same as in China in WCH, right? They were not DSQ too... In curling there should be other fair atmosphere and players should not do this illegal shots and moves. And if yes, they should accept their own fauls.

It is sad that especially for this biggest curling country, they need to do this cheating. It is my biggest disappointing in this olympics that they killing this beautiful sport 

Its not cheating, again if it was "cheating" they would have been disqualified 

[Josh 13,411]

Just now, stepansevs said:

The same as in China in WCH, right? They were not DSQ too... In curling there should be other fair atmosphere and players should not do this illegal shots and moves. And if yes, they should accept their own fauls.

It is sad that especially for this biggest curling country, they need to do this cheating. It is my biggest disappointing in this olympics that they killing this beautiful sport 

No, not the same thing. What China did actually impacted their game against Germany, by kicking their stone "accidentally" they tapped their own stone into the rings, and Germany only ended up scoring 2 that end instead of 3. Then, the Chinese team kept denying it.

[stepansevs 219]

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

Its not cheating, again if it was "cheating" they would have been disqualified 

Ok maybe not cheating, but it was not 100% correct. And if it does not have any impact why he does it in each of his shot? And China in WCH was cheated and was not DSQ? So it was not cheating too?

[Josh 13,411]

2 hours ago, stepansevs said:

Ok maybe not cheating, but it was not 100% correct. And if it does not have any impact why he does it in each of his shot? And China in WCH was cheated and was not DSQ? So it was not cheating too?

I said it above

[Swewi 504]

Ben Hebert:

"...

We have a hockey mentality on our curling team, we’re not going to be bullied and pushed over by a bunch of Swedish guys out there that are getting their a**es handed to them."

“We didn’t have any of that, we finished at the top of the podium with the gold and they finished dead last, so I think that says a lot.”

Hebert is long known in curling media circles for not being afraid to speak his mind, and he didn’t let up in his ire when it came to the genesis of the entire situation -- Eriksson.

“That snake in the grass,” Hebert said. “The stuff he tried to pull at the Olympics is not very Olympia of him… I lost a lot of respect for him with the stuff he tried to pull. He’s won the Olympics, they’ve won Grand Slams, they’ve won World Championships, and when they were at the high of their peak, you never saw that stuff from him. These last two or three years, they’ve been on a brutal stretch and pretty irrelevant in the curling world, haven’t won anything, they’re out of the Grand Slams, dead last in the Olympics puts a stamp on that.."

[NearPup 4,159]

1 hour ago, Swewi said:

Ben Hebert

Not sure if I'm relieved he's retiring and he won't play against Oskar again, or disappointment that we won't see the fireworks from a close game between those two teams again.

 

(I know theoretically team Jacobs could qualify for worlds, but I kinda suspect the Olympic hangover will be too much for them to win the Brier, especially with Brad Gushue playing at home for the very last time)