CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Canada's curlers have been given a warning for "language used" during their controversial win over defending champion Sweden on Friday at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Canada won 8-6 in a tense match, where controversy emerged with Sweden alleging Canadian players of double touching the stone.
"World Curling spoke with the Canadian officials to issue a verbal warning regarding the language used by a Canadian men's player during the game," World Curling said in a statement.
"During that meeting it was made clear to those officials that further inappropriate behavior ... would result in additional sanctions."
Addressing delivery concerns, World Curling explained that while game umpires are positioned at the end of each sheet, they cannot observe every potential infraction.
"However, when they are made aware of delivery issues, game umpires are positioned to observe the delivery for three ends. During this period of observation in the Friday evening game, there were no violations recorded," the governing body added.
Under World Curling rules, a stone must be clearly released before reaching the hog line and must be delivered using the handle. Touching the granite of the stone during forward motion or making an illegal release results in the stone being removed from play.
World Curling said that beginning with Saturday afternoon's session, two additional officials will rotate among the four sheets to observe deliveries more closely.
