The next day, an umpire accused acclaimed Canadian skip Rachel Homan of the same infraction in Canada's match against Switzerland. Canadian curling commentator John Cullen, who hosted the CBC podcast Broomgate: A Curling Scandal, said most top curlers will say that double-touching has no effect on the stone. Mike Harris, a Canadian curler and CBC commentator for the Olympics, said he's never seen any curler called out for double-touching. "I think they just felt like Marc Kennedy in particular does this sort of motion often, and he happens to play for Canada," Cullen said. But Cullen did question why, if Sweden thought Kennedy had a history of double-touching, it hadn't called it out before.

Source: CBC News February 18, 2026 14:40 UTC