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.

A curler representing Canada got into a shouting match with his Swedish opponent after being accused of breaking the rules during the men’s curling event at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 13,

The Olympic Winter Games 2026 faced controversy during a men's curling match between Canada and Sweden, with accusations of cheating. Sweden's Oskar Eriksson claimed Canada’s Marc Kennedy double-touched the stone.

Curling is a team sport played on a strip of ice 45 meters long and five meters wide, where two opposing teams battle to see who can slide granite stones toward a target, or house as defined by the World Curling Federation. Each house consists of four rings which help define which curling stones are closest to the center, known as the button.

Cameras caught a testy NSFW exchange between the men’s Canadian curling team and Sweden during Friday’s matchup.

Even if pots, pans, hair products — and even babies — can do the trick in a pinch, they're nothing like the curling stones on the ice in Cortina. If you want Olympic-level material, you'll have to look to the uninhabited isle of Ailsa Cragi, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) off the coast of Scotland.