Posted on 02/15/2026 8:05:06 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Canadian women’s curling skip Rachel Homan sounded off Saturday after she had a rock pulled in an 8-7 loss to Switzerland, claiming she was unfairly punished for a ‘double-touching’ controversy involving Canada and Sweden in the men’s draw.
Homan’s first rock of the game was pulled by the umpire, who ruled she touched the granite after releasing the handle. The draw didn’t touch any other stones and it was removed when it came to rest.
Clearly frustrated after losing in an extra end, Homan was asked by reporters if she felt she was being unfairly treated.
“100 per cent,” Homan said. “Without a doubt.”
Canada managed a single in the first end and led 4-0 after three. But Silvana Tirinzoni’s side pulled ahead with a four-point seventh end and won when Alina Paetz drew the button in the 11th.
The loss left Canada with a 1-3 record with five round-robin games to play.
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“A great Ice sport and you do not need to get your teeth knocked out! (Keri Einarson of Gimli Manitoba)“
Last time my wife and I curled was a tournament among her office mates. We won the half horse trophy for our performance. And it wasn’t the front half…
Even Moses touched the rock twice
Yeah I love it. Almost chess level of strategy with figuring out your move and how they’ll move and what you’ll do about that and how if you have the hammer you’d rather score 0 than 1, but if you can get 2... And then of course after you figure out your move you have to go 100+ feet away and slide that rock and then you miss by a quarter of an inch and all your plans disintegrate. I’m in the sun belt so I doubt there’s a club nearby. I watched it a lot back when NBCSN existed and had the NHL, I would “rest” my cable box on that channel in the winter and frequently come home to curling on. Wonderful sport. My second favorite of both Olympics, right after hockey.
Sounds fun! My brothers and I will talk like that once in awhile.
It does look like fun, but then again, when everyone would go to the dart board in a bar, I would go to that silly long table off in the corner, so...I consider myself predisposed to curling!
I do it every Thursday night with my own older brother...:)
My wife listens to us sometimes, and complains that she can’t follow along because we may jump from the subject of ICE immigration raids to what car was the worst that came out in the Seventies, to every subject in between!
I love it. My brother gave my bachelor toast at my wedding, and admitted he was the Freddy Kruger of my childhood, which was true. Back then, he was bad tempered and quick to boil, and would beat the snot out of me for looking at him cross-ways. Early in our childhood, my mother would say “You’re bigger than him-just sit on him!”
That was true, but she never had a wiry, ill-tempered Tasmanian Devil with braces on his teeth bearing down on her with fire coming out of his nose and his fists looking for all the world to me like Popeye’s fists after eating a can of spinach!
I learned early on not to let her or my father get involved. It just made it worse when they weren’t around...probably not a bad lesson to learn.
And now, in our advancing old age, there are fewer people in my life dearer to me than my best man from my wedding!
You did have a few beers and a good time, no one lost their teeth, nobody was sent to the penalty box, you put all that cold air to good use. What else would you be doing in January? Shoveling snow?
Women having a good time while using brooms! Its different!
“You did have a few beers and a good time, no one lost their teeth, nobody was sent to the penalty box, you put all that cold air to good use. What else would you be doing in January? Shoveling snow?“
We played mixed couples and the other couple were avid curlers. They weren’t happy with our trophy at all!
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