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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Homan, throwing rocks, ice: You’d think it was another story about chasing bad hombres.
It’s like slow motion bowling.
Or maybe shuffleboard on ice?
I’m a failure, I touched the rock.
A lot of this seems to be going around. X gets caught red handed doing something wrong. X somehow turns it around. It is whoever discovered the wrong doing who is the real criminal or cheater. X becomes the victim. X not only becomes the victim but does so loudly and in some cases does so in a violent manner.
In Minnesota they caught, on video, persons running fake daycare centers while receiving millions in government money. The fraud was apparent. Yet, said persons are now the victims of evil ICE who is daring to deport them. Cue the mobs and violence.
The Canadian team was caught, on video, violating the rules. They are now the victims and those who dared to film it are the real cheaters. Poor Canada is being unfairly victimized. And it resulted in a the near brawl during a curling match.
I suppose if one thing useful did come out of this, curling is one step closer to being a full contact sport. MMA does curling, I can see it now.
Or winter time’s version of beer league softball.
But I do have to say, some fairly attractive women do curl. So maybe this could be a hobby/sport worth investigating.
And definitely not after letting go of the handle!
You beat me to it! Well played!
It’s slow-motion marbles. With giant marbles.
Saw her in the match before this when CAN lost to USA.
Resting B*** face the entire match. And she was PI$$ED after they lost.
Not a good sport.
This article sounds like it’s a combination of AI and “Mad-Libs”.
Curling - the “sport” that eliminates having to take sleeping pills.
My wife’s hairdresser is into curling.
However, for members only they have an hour or two of just discussion called Right Angle Backstage which is like three guys hanging out and yakking about any manner of things. They flit from topic to topic and go wherever the flow leads them, and I love listening to it!
It is like listening to guys just hanging out having a beer on a porch and chatting about everything. It is real person conversation, not political pundit talk, and I find it entertaining, because they talk the way "normal" people do when...well, they are just conversing...:)
On this recent episode of Right Angle Backstage they were talking about the Olympics...
OTT: Really? You’re go to have to help me appreciate this because I think, it is like watching the Zamboni at halftime clean the ice.
GREEN: No, these speedskaters what they do is so perfect and precise and just the slightest, the slightest thing that is not perfect and you lose.
OTT: More so than luge?
GREEN: You know, here's the thing. I am against Olympic sports that in theory I could do even if only badly.
WHITTLE: Yes. Exactly!
OTT: Hahahaha…so, you think you're just laying down on that sled and just they drop you into that tube?
GREEN: I’ve done the Alpine slide at Broadmoor back when that was still a thing. I'm pretty sure I could lose badly!
WHITTLE: You're a “luger”! Plus, I'm not that much a fan of any game or any sport or any at least any competitive sport that involves tricks. You know, I think the Olympics should be like about times like the fastest guy or the you know, whatever. Strongest.
OTT: You know I can't if I even attempt it and OK, if you were to get me-and this is very theoretical-on ice skates on an ice rink, I would not let both of those blades leave the ice at one time.
GREEN: No. No. For fear of death. Actual death.
OTT: One of the problems with the speed events is if something happens, let's say your elbow accidentally bumps that flag thing on the slope on the grand slam or you're in the luge thing and you brush against the wall slightly and you know it's your 50 feet into the race and the announcer goes “Oh, no! He just lost 3/10 of a second. He'll never make that back up!” and you're like well why? You might as well sit up on your luge sled at that point. Like there's no use going on. You lost or like 3/1000ths of a second or some tiny fraction of time, and it's impossible for you to recover from it. And so the rest of the run is just wasted.
WHITTLE: Yeah.
GREEN: And the thing is, they know it, though, but you don't get to the Olympics unless you were just supremely superbly competitive. Except for curling, that's a beer drinking sport.
WHITTLE: Yes. It's not that it is not an Olympic sport. And it's just not. I mean bowling is more of a sport than curling.
GREEN: The thing is I find fascinating. You just don't think it's an Olympic sport?
OTT: Yeah. It's like you know, it’s like a bar sport. You know what was that sport in the bar where you have that long sliding table and you throw that wax on the dust down on there and…
WHITTLE: Yeah yeah yeah…t was a bowling game wasn't it? They had like a little clicking things on the bottom and you were just, kind of like it was like a slide.
GREEN: It wasn't a bowling thing. It was that you tried to get your piece down as close to the edge on the far side without falling off and then knock the other guys's piece out of the way when possible. So, yeah, you weren't trying to knock it down the other little rolly-pin things. You were trying To get a high score while pushing your opponent off the board.
OTT: And that's essentially what curling looks like to me. Like they're just trying to knock those other giant things out of the way. And can you imagine having to carry that around? It's bad enough to have to carry a bowling ball around, but those stones that they use for curling…
GREEN: Yeah. Like you have to have a caddy. Here's an idea. You've got the person with the little brusher thing that supposed to go slow everything down. But I think to heighten the difficulty level and to just make things a little more interesting: While one team is advancing, you know, with the broom, and the guy and, the stone guy, and all that, you have another guy on the ice from the other team with a hairdryer and an extension cord.
OTT: I do think it would be more exciting if the other team was out there trying to stop the guy with the dustmop. That's, you know, that guy scrubbing the ice on the way down!
” I do think it would be more exciting if the other team was out there trying to stop the guy with the dustmop. “
ROFL!
I must admit the terminology of curling leaves me completely flummoxed. And when I saw the head line I wondered ‘What does Tom Homan have to do with Olympic curling?!’.
I mean, how does one get drawn to such sport?!
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