"Curling, it's fair to say, is one of the less aggro sports at the Winter Olympics. While other winter disciplines involve hurtling down mountains at great speeds or flying through the air while wearing ice skates, it's possible to compete in curling as a 54-year-old lawyer who wears a baseball cap during competition. Sure, curlers get amped up, in their way."
"It's just that curling isn't the sort of sport that typically involves arguing, accusations of cheating, or telling your opponents to "fuck off." Well! We live in argumentative times, and I suppose it was naïve to think that curling would be immune to the coarsening factors that have spoiled literally every good thing we've got. For the last few days, the Olympics have been roiled by a dispute that broke out during a men's round-robin match between Canada and Sweden."
Curling is generally a low-aggression Winter Olympic sport where competitors range from older amateurs to serious athletes. A men's round-robin match between Canada and Sweden erupted when Swedish curler Oskar Eriksson accused Canadian Marc Kennedy of double-touching a rock as it passed the hog line. Kennedy responded by telling Eriksson where he could stick his claims, which escalated tempers at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium. Hog line surveillance and heated exchanges kept players and spectators on edge. An Olympic Jerk Court persona, Judge Peters, declared readiness to adjudicate and mock-presided over the dispute, framing the incident as a test of jerkdom.
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