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The crowds are so loud you could easily mistake these matches as football games. They’re chanting and doing the wave inside the curling venue, and players are having to adjust. Although the sport is one of Canada’s favorite pastimes, the raucous crowds in the cozy arena are raising eyebrows. Like golf, curling has an understated tradition and an etiquette. Denmark’s Madeleine Dupont says at one point she was about to shoot but decided to wait until things quieted down. “The problem is that not everyone who’s here is used to watching curling,” Dupont said. “They just kept on going, and I stood up to be like, ‘Can we please just . . . ?’ ” Said Canada’s Cheryl Bernard, “I think I’d panic if it got quiet now.”
The AP
