These Canadian curlers just can’t seem to (allegedly) keep their fingers off the rocks once they’ve let them go.

Not even 24 hours after Canadian men’s curling team vice-skip Marc Kennedy was accused of cheating by double touching the stone during Canada’s round-robin match with Sweden – and subsequently blew up at the Swedes – Switzerland accused Canada of the same thing during its 9-5 victory over Brad Jacobs’ rink Saturday at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

During a break in action Saturday, TV cameras caught Swiss curler Pablo Lachat-Couchepin speaking to Swiss men’s curling team coach Glenn Howard – a legendary Canadian curler in his heyday who won four world championship representing Canada – explaining that Canada had double-touched.

“I don’t want to focus too much on it, but he double touched and the referee saw that,” Lachat-Couchepin said. “I told (the referee), he saw that. He didn’t answer anything.”

After Canada’s match with Switzerland, Kennedy apologized to the young Canadian curlers who look up to him, understanding his choice of words probably weren’t the best.

“I probably could have handled myself better in the moment,” Kennedy said. “My whole life I’ve been a little bit like that if my integrity gets questioned. … I know I’m a role model for Canadian curlers, so if I apologize at all it’s to the young curlers around the country.”

In light of Kennedy’s profane exchange with Sweden, World Curling — the world governing body for curling, released statements Saturday trying to clarify the rules, exactly.

The crux of the matter is once a stone is released, you’re not allowed to touch it after it passes the hog line, something World Curling said Canada was in no violation of during Friday’s match with Sweden.

However, in an attempt to further clarify what a “proper release” is, World Curling sent out a statement labelling what players are and aren’t allowed to do.

The most notable rule clarification in regards to this situation reads as follows:

“A stone must be delivered by using the handle of the stone. Touching the granite at any time during the forward motion is not allowed and considered a touched moving stone which results in the stone being removed from play.”

For his blow-up, Kennedy was issued a “verbal warning” by World Curling.

This whole situation has ruffled feathers within Curling Canada, including the organization’s CEO Nolan Thiessen.

Speaking to media Saturday morning, Thiessen made it clear that Kennedy and the rest of Canada’s men’s curlers are against cheating.

“I take a lot of umbrage with the word cheating that was being said out there,” he said. “There was no cheating. Our team wouldn’t cheat.”

Social media reaction to Canada’s alleged bending of the rules hasn’t been too kind. Most concerning, though, is that Kennedy’s wife appears to have received backlash on social media, according to Thiessen.

It’s clear that every match the Canadian men’s curling team will play moving forward will be under immense scrutiny to see if they really are skirting the rules.

Considering how soundly Canada was defeated Saturday, if it did cheat, it didn’t amount to much.

Canada next plays Xu Xiaoming and China Sunday at 1:05 p.m. EST/10:05 a.m. PST.