cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7671573

Sweden knew Canada's Marc Kennedy was a notorious cheater.

So they set up a camera at the 'hog line' to record it.

And caught him doing it at the Olympics.

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Canadians are cheating in Curling
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[–] 26 points 8 months ago (8 children)

That does seem like solid proof

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago*

    And it was available for review right there right then. But we can't use cameras in sports, because apparently that would ruin sports, for some reason. Oh, and except when they literally use them to measure stuff like who's over the finish line first, or inside a line, or outside a line, or measure things down to 1/10000th of a second, and literally film every single moment of every event from every imaginable angle. BUT NOT FOR THIS. Because it would ruin the sport, all sports.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Its a snapshot, he could have released this handle and retracted his hand with his finger off to side of the tangent of the rock. Wed need frames before and after for better review

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well in the slowed video it totally looks intentional https://youtu.be/W1yh6GN5ysks

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    disagree. it isn't conclusive. it shows that his finger was very close to touching for a few frames. that's it. "very close" is not over the line. his finger is just enough on the back side that it's inconclusive.

    it's a bit of a weird motion, sure, but watch a bunch of throws from various people and you'll see some similar stuff.

    that said, adjust your delivery so you're not in this position in the first place. and settle down, even if there's an ongoing issue you're annoyed about.

    I do find it funny that this is such a big deal but you can see people all over the place in this tournament dragging their finger(s) down the back of the handle at release, seemingly over the stone as well (yes I recognize that is a different motion that poking forward after being behind it)

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