Julia Frankel

Curling athletes say the near-constant competition schedule at the Olympics has worn them down, physically and mentally.

Controversy is swirling in curling at the Winter Olympics.

Canada’s women’s curling team at the Milan Cortina Olympics was accused Saturday night of the same violation that prompted an expletive-laden outburst from a Canadian men’s curler a day earlier.

Though his U.S. curling teammates poke fun and make Rich Ruohonen the butt of the occasional TikTok video, there’s clearly a lot of love on both sides.

The Americans became the first U.S. team to medal in Olympic mixed doubles, and Cory Thiesse is the first American woman to medal in Olympic curling.

In any other Olympic sport, a tie game with the result hanging in the balance would create tension between teams. Not in curling.