World Curling issues update as Canada accused of cheating and Sweden told to 'f*** off'

World Curling has issued an update following the carnage between Canada and Sweden yesterday (13 February).

It was alleged by Swedish athlete Oskar Eriksson that Canadian third Marc Kennedy was cheating during their match as he claimed he was double-touching the stones.

This led to the Team Canada athlete telling the Swede to 'f**k off' on the ice, picked up on TV.

Having gone viral, World Curling has now clarified 'several issues' as it reportedly sent an email to all teams to say: "For any remaining sessions of the Olympic Games, we will have umpires observing the delivery."

It also said on its site that a verbal warning has been issued following the language used by 'a Canadian men's player during the game'.

Oskar Eriksson accused the Canadian of cheating on the ice (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP via Getty Images)

"During that meeting it was made clear to those officials that further inappropriate behaviour, determined by rule R.19 would result in additional sanctions," it explains.

"Rule R.19 states: 'Improper conduct, foul or offensive language, equipment abuse, or wilful damage on the part of any team member is prohibited. Any violation may result in suspension of the offending person(s) by the curling organisation having jurisdiction.'"

World Curling also explained that video replay is not currently used to 're-umpire game decision'.

"Decisions made during a game are final," it said.

And the governing body went on to address 'delivery violations' as it said: "Game Umpires are situated at the end of each sheet and physically cannot see every delivery infraction. However, when they are made aware of delivery issues, game umpires are positioned to observe the delivery for three ends. During this period of observation in the Friday evening game, there were no violations recorded."

Shared by CBC Olympics reporter Devin Heroux on X, an email to teams also clarified 'what is allowed as a proper release of a curling stone'.

A verbal warning has been issued after Marc Kennedy's 'f**k off's ( Al Bello/Getty Images)

"A double touch of the stone handle before the hog line at the delivery end is allowed," World Curling listed.

"A re-touch of the stone handle after the hog line at the delivery end is not allowed and detected by the new handles.

"A stone must be delivered by using the handle of the stone. Touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed and considered a touched moving stone which results in the stone being removed from play."

Eriksson claimed Kennedy was double-touching the stones as the Canadian responded: "I haven't done it once. You can f**k off."

The pair had a bit of a row about the matter and Kennedy told reporters afterwards: "I don’t like being accused of cheating, so I told him what I thought of it. It’s good for sport guys, it gets heated out there, it’s a battle, we’ve played each other a million times."

Swedish team leader Fredrik Lindberg said in a statement that the ‘Swedish Olympic Committee will not seek an investigation regarding the events’ of the game.