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03/04 15:55 CST Curling rocked again as 2 stones are stolen at the Milan
Cortina Paralympics
Curling rocked again as 2 stones are stolen at the Milan Cortina Paralympics
By TALES AZZONI
AP Sports Writer
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) --- It's another scandal for curling, this time
at the Paralympics.
Two stones that were going to be used in the wheelchair curling event that
began Wednesday at the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games have been stolen.
The incident came a couple of weeks after the sport was in the headlines during
the Olympics as the Canadian team was accused of cheating.
World Curling told The Associated Press that local authorities were
investigating the circumstances that led to the granite rocks being stolen from
the Curling Olympic Stadium.
"The spare stones from the set are now being used and have been brought to the
same specifications as the rest of the set so there has been no impact on the
competition," World Curling said in an email.
The Milan Cortina Paralympics will officially kick off with the opening
ceremony on Friday, but the schedule for wheelchair curling started Wednesday.
The Olympic scandal rocked the usually sedate world of curling --- a sport that
tends to fall off the radar outside the Olympics.
In the round-robin phase 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 full of
expletives. Canada was cleared of wrongdoing and eventually won its first gold
in men's curling since the 2014 Sochi Games.
The Canadian women's team had also been accused of the same double-touch
violation.
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