Curling: Canada Accuses Lag Edin and SVT of Conspiracy

Because of that, Canada was warned about inappropriate behavior. After their loss to Switzerland on Saturday, Kennedy snubbed interviews with Swedish television. However, he chose to talk to Swedish newspapers.

For DN he admitted that he had touched the stone:

– If a finger touches it, I know that it has no effect in the end. I’m not going to sit here and deny that it’s not happening, but I strongly deny that it was intentional.

New attack against Lag Edin and SVT

At the same time, he accuses Lag Edin and SVT of a conspiracy.

– They (Sweden) have come up with a plan here at the Olympics to catch our team red-handed. It was planned from the very beginning yesterday. From the words of their coach and how they ran to the judges. It was pretty obvious that something was going on and that they were trying to catch us red-handed, says Kennedy.

He continues:

– I know that we are not the only team that they have done it against. So I think this was, I don’t know what the word is for it, kind of like a premeditated plan to try and catch us. It upset me a bit.

SVT responds to the accusations

This is how SVT’s sports director Max Bursell answers it:

– My opinion is that our reporter and photographer on the spot saw that there were discussions about this and therefore decided to film and see how it actually was. Team Edin has absolutely nothing to do with this.

SVT Sports news director Johanna Bäckström Lerneby:

– I know that there are such conspiracy theories that are spread, but I can most definitely deny that. Those are just conspiracy theories. Our photographer was just doing a normal journalistic job. Sometimes you have to have a little fluidity to stand in exactly the right place, and if you look at the pictures, one player moved exactly so that you can see the index finger exactly.

– This would probably have gone unnoticed if it hadn’t been in the Olympics. Imagine if we hadn’t had it on picture, then it would have become word for word and perhaps fallen into oblivion. It’s the film that does it, and being in the right place at the right time is every journalist’s dream.