Curling at the Winter Olympics is always a fan-favorite event, but its viral popularity reached new heights thanks to a heated confrontation between Team Canada and Team Sweden at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.
Protective gear is in short supply in Italy as tensions boil over in the curling and a Norwegian-born Brazilian makes history. Here are the quick hits from the Winter Olympics.
Until Friday, the American women had never beaten Canada -- a perennial favorite that has medaled in every Winter Games since curling was added to the Olympics in 1998. The U.S. men beat the Canadians for the first time in the 2018 round-robin and again in the semifinals en route to their gold medal victory in Pyeongchang.
A dramatic and entertaining Day 8 of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games saw seven Winter Olympics gold medals handed out. American-born Chinese athlete Eileen Gu qualified for the women's freeski big air final despite a fall in her second qualifying run.
During the Winter Olympics, scandals and controversies have run rampant, and another emerged on Friday in Curling
Homan was penalized for double touching the stone in Canada’s loss to Switzerland on Saturday.
A curling match between Canada and Sweden on Friday erupted with profanity-laced back-and-forth over cheating allegations.
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