- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
Sweden knew Canada’s Marc Kennedy was a notorious cheater.
So they set up a camera at the ‘hog line’ to record it.
And caught him doing it at the Olympics.
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Swedes posted the Canadians touching their rock after the hog line
Leafcels brutally mogged by anglemaxxed swedish curlchads.
Oh, Canada 😭
Edit: also angry that curling has appropriated the term “hog line” as doing so diverts attention from the true hog line which is anything you post that causes chuds to post hog.
I thought a hog line was like a woman’s underwear line like hey buddy your hog line is showing.
moose knuckle
Come on everybody drop your hog lines, I gotta expand my repertoire
As I am not a curling type of guy I have no idea the significance beyond breaking the letter of the law. I must assume the finger flick does have some actual measurable effect otherwise it wouldn’t be done?
If sweeping the floor has a massive effect on speed and trajectory I assume a little boop would as well
Right. It must be of some significance to attempt doing it on an internationally viewed platform.
The ice isnt like a hockey rink, they spray is down so it has a slushy top layer
I don’t think that would entirely negate the effect of applying extra force to the rock after release
I agree
What flavor is the slushy? 😋
Plain
The stone is pretty heavy, and you’re only supposed to move it by melting the ice ahead of it using the brooms. When the forces involved are that small, a small push can definitely make a difference
Finer tuned accuracy. Curling is genuinely super fucking hard, part of the reason so many pro curlers are fairly old is partially cause it isnt that physically demanding so you can keep it up at an older age, but also cause it just takes that long to get really good. It would prevent rhe rock from spinning or allow tou to slow the spin after releasing a bit more than you coukd using the handle, or curling which can be useful at certain times. I am weird and the only sport I care about is curling. Little boops translate to a big difference over a long distance.
Its a little silly and overblown which is the perfect sports drama I love, the effect before you hit the line where you’re supposed to let go of the stone is negligible because… you can still hold the stone then anyway
Surely it matters enough that the risk of being caught cheating doesn’t stop them from doing it?
It’s sort of good drama I guess I’d call it. We aren’t dealing with doping, sex crimes, etc. just a little finger boop.
BoopGate
This fucking sent me holy shit
It is, but slowing the spin after letting go of the handle that way does allow some fine tuning that wither should be allowed for everyone or should t be allowed. That slight difference of spin over the distance can translate to a pretty different angle near the end.
Angloids are incapable of partaking in sport due to their natural deficits. It is far from surprising that such a lowly race would resort to trickery and skullduggery in order to bandage the hemorrhage of their inferior genetics.
I’m reminded of a disgusting rant during the last world cup against Iranian players that sounded similar to this; Iranian players who’d taken a knee in solidarity with Iranian anti-government protesters, so not pro-government players (not that it would matter)
7/10 Measurehead rating. Not pseudoscientific enough
me watching the swedes absolutely mog the canucks
Look, the only time ill participate in nationalism is over Olympic Curling. If you’re not trying to cheat you’re not trying to win. Come down here and try to win the Bryers Cup with your bulkshit rule following. You guys probsvlt aren’t even drunk while competing in international sports. Hoser
I never understood how someone can feel good about themselves after they win thru cheating
Like the psychology doesn’t make sense to me, is it the thrill of not getting caught that they’re chasing, instead of the glory of a hard won triumph?
My own brother used to cheat at videogames. He built a lag switch connected to his Playstation, which he would flip during SOCOM. I don’t know how it worked but it caused other players to lag heavily. Sometimes he would flip it then just walk around shooting opponents in the face. I have never been able to understand why this would be fun or feel good.
He was huge into Diablo 2 at one point (I was too, but I wasn’t playing it when he was). He would IM people and send them a program to duplicate their items. What it actually did was make them take off all their gear, drop it, then quit the game. He made so much off this scam, he had a mule character that had an inventory full of Stone of Jordan rings. These were the de facto high level currency because they were very rare, only took up one slot, and gold wasn’t worth much.
One day he got his. I heard him absolutely losing his shit, screaming and crying from the family PC. He got scammed and lost everything. I’m not proud of this but it made me feel so, so good.
I think the usual logic is that “everyone else is doing it”. And often they are right about that. For example, various forms of blood doping in top level cycling. The standards orgs running the competitions put more focus on arbitrary rules about the bicycles themselves than safety or doping, the latter is just a PR issue for them. So if you want to be “the best”, you either accept coming in 28th place naturally or top 5 doing what everyone else does.
You need to win to earn money and sponsordeals from professional sports. So it’s just the same mix of cognitive dissonance and calvinism that allows many people to feel like they deserve their success over others who work just as hard if not harder.
What does Calvinism have to do with anything?
Calvinism promotes the idea that if you experience success, then it’s because god has made you successful because you’re a good person. It’s the driving force between the equivalence people perceive between their economic success and their values. If a sports team wins by cheating, they still get the money and feeling of success and thus feel like good people because of the combination of cognitive dissonance and calvinist beliefs that are still strongly present in western society.
I might be able to get in the right headspace to explain it in a bit.
Like, I don’t really get it either, but I know it starts with “I want to win” not “I want to get away with something”. Then a small thrill on the “I just got away with something yay”.
In terms of not understanding it, there’s alignment along AuDHD/neurotypical/ASPD axes for attitudes about cheating (and, inherently, about capitalism).
(this is going to involve some brain chemistry modification so it might be a bit, hopefully I remember and come back to this)
Hoo boy, here we go. Feeling it now. Or, at least able to emulate feelings of it. Spoilered/nested for ramble containment.
Why do people cheat in sports?
A documented train of thought about cheating in sports.
I’m big. I’m the biggest guy in the room. I’m gonna boss that guy[1] around because he’s smaller than me. I’m big and loud and in charge. I get what I want.
Why?
We’re animals. Competition is natural. Every species competes. Nature is absolutely brutal and tiger does not concern himself with the feelings of the gazelle.
you, but this character doesn’t even think about you as, like, a person ↩︎
Why do?
I need to eat. I have to get food. I have to hunt. I have to gather.
Why people?
Life proceates. We’re a familial species. We have to take care of our young.
Why do?
We need to gather resources. We are not bathed in nutrient slop. Effort must be expended.
Sweden is inventing new angles though… the whole thing is corrupt.
what would you expect from a country that welcomed nazis with open arms?
CHEATING ALLEGATIONS IN THE WINTER OLYMPICS: Tensions flared in the curling world at the Winter Olympics as accusations of cheating and audible profanity overshadowed a heated showdown between powerhouse men’s teams Canada and Sweden.
tweto video of the cheating canucks angry after being accused
Inflated penis and balls getting tapped the Olympics sound kind of fun
As a Canadian presence who likes curling, they juzt wanna win, chill
‘hog line’
Two are Albertan. At least one is Ontarian. I’m assuming the guy from Richmond is BC. And then one is from PEI. So that’s like 3/5 are the dregs of Canada.
Not explaining which ones are the dregs but Canadians on here will know what’s up.
clearly Alberta, they might as well be Texas, otherwise I’m guessing PEI because in my experience BC and Ontario are nice.
Ontario suck fucking ass.
Windsor is nicer than Detroit and that is about all I know.
Curling would be a lot more fun if it was like ice billiards.
