By TALES AZZONI
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — It’s one other scandal for curling, this time on the Paralympics.
Two stones that have been going for use within the wheelchair curling occasion that started Wednesday on the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games have been stolen.
The incident got here a few weeks after the game was within the headlines through the Olympics because the Canadian crew was accused of cheating.
World Curling instructed The Related Press that native authorities have been investigating the circumstances that led to the granite rocks being stolen from the Curling Olympic Stadium.
“The spare stones from the set at the moment are getting used and have been delivered to the identical specs as the remainder of the set so there was no impression on the competitors,” World Curling stated in an e-mail.
The Milan Cortina Paralympics will officially kick off with the opening ceremony on Friday, however the schedule for wheelchair curling began Wednesday.
The Olympic scandal rocked the normally sedate world of curling — a sport that tends to fall off the radar outdoors the Olympics.
Within the round-robin part in Cortina, Oskar Eriksson of Sweden accused Marc Kennedy, Canada’s vice skip, of double-touching the rock after initially releasing it down the sheet of ice. Kennedy responded with an outburst stuffed with expletives. Canada was cleared of wrongdoing and ultimately won its first gold in men’s curling since the 2014 Sochi Games.
The Canadian ladies’s crew had additionally been accused of the same double-touch violation.
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