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Curling Canada seeks to ease broom tension ahead of national championships
CALGARY — Curling Canada’s chief executive officer says the message to athletes competing in the upcoming men’s and women’s national championship is no one is cheating.
Tension over broom technology has resurfaced at a high-stakes time as teams in Canada and around the world vie to represent their country at next year’s Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
The World Curling Federation’s recent declaration that approved equipment remains within the rules and will not be removed from the field of play runs counter to the opinions of some curlers who put brooms to the test in competition almost every weekend.
Several of the world’s top 30 teams issued a joint “proposal for fair play” statement earlier this month about concerns over foam firmness in some manufacturers’ broom heads having outsized control over the trajectory of a delivered stone.