Olympic curling scandal like 'foot fault in tennis or traveling in basketball,' Canada official says

The double-touching scandal that plagued his country’s curling team was like “a foot fault in tennis or traveling in basketball,” the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee said on Sunday. David Shoemaker, who is also the committee’s secretary general, was asked by The Associated Press about the controversy a day after the Canadian men swept aside the cheating allegations to claim gold at the Milan Cortina Games. “For me it’s like a foot fault in tennis or traveling in basketball,” Shoemaker...

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and ANDREW DAMPF