There’s no fighting in curling! Until now. It was quite a scene on the ice Friday as the Canadian and Swedish curling teams got into it. It was near the end of the match when Sweden’s vice-captain, Oskar Eriksson, accused his Canadian counterpart, Marc Kennedy, of cheating. Kennedy had a strong reaction. “You can f*** off,” Kennedy was heard saying. “I haven’t done it once, don’t chirp!” The match came to a brief standstill as fingers were pointed and Kennedy argued with members of the Swedish team across the ice. “I don’t like being accused of cheating after 25 years on tour and four Olympic Games,” the 44-year-old Kennedy said. “So,” he added, “I told him where to stick it. Because we’re the wrong team to do that to.” Both sides had been complaining about the other’s releases when tensions boiled over. To catch you up, there’s a rule in curling where you can’t touch a released stone after it passes the hog line, a thick line painted across the ice 21 feet from “where each team stands. “the house.” That’s the target area. Twitter had a field day with its frame-by-frame circling of the alleged violations. A statement from Olympics officials, however, found no wrongdoing on Canada’s part, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Ultimately, Canada won the match 8-6. The United States lost to Canada 6-3 earlier in the Winter Olympics. The men face Germany in a preliminary match on Saturday. var pymParent = new pym.Parent('olyLink319', 'https://visuals.otsops.com/projects/milan-links-generator/visual-link.html?link=https://www.nbcolympics.com/videos/canada-mens-curling-rallies-past-sweden-late-surgetitle=Canada%20men%27s%20curling%20rallies%20past%20Sweden%20after%20fight%20erupts%20on%20icerand=319image=https://images.nbcolympics.com/sites/default/files/post/short_form_video/2026/02/13/oly26_cumen_hlf_7582_swedenvscanada_260213.jpg?impolicy=rect_medium_1024_576', {title: '', parenturlparam: '', parenturlvalue: ''}); Eriksson said he simply wanted everyone to “play by the same rules.” “We want a game that is as sportsmanlike, honest and clean as possible,” he said, “so we call it out as soon as I see that the Canadian No. 2 is, in my eyes, there poking the stone.” The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less