It was the expletive that spread globally—Canadian curlers losing their cool.

“You can f–ck off,” skip Marc Kennedy said to Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson during an Olympic match in Cortina on Friday. Eriksson claimed Kennedy had illegally touched a curling stone right after releasing it. When Eriksson stated video footage would show the infraction, Kennedy grew angrier, insisting he’d never done anything so terrible.

The video evidence, in fact, indicated Kennedy’s finger probably grazed the stone. Then the Canadian women’s team had a similar issue. Curler Rachel Homan was and an umpire took her rock out of play. Homan challenged the call afterward. “I have no idea what [the umpire] saw,” she remarked. The Canadian women’s team, a medal contender, has a 2-3 record in round robin play.

A curling scandal at the Olympics? Involving America’s friendly northern neighbors? As absurd as it might seem, the commotion in Cortina perfectly sums up Team Canada’s Winter Olympics so far. More than halfway through the Milan-Cortina Games, Canada has just one gold medal: Mikaël Kingsbury won the dual moguls event on Sunday. As of Monday afternoon in Italy, 14 countries had more gold medals than Canada—including the mountainous nation with plenty of ski chalets and ice tracks, Great Britain (ouch).

Canada led the medal table at its home Vancouver Olympics in 2010, with 14 golds and 26 total medals. Four years ago in Beijing, Canada again secured 26 total medals, finishing fourth overall. As of Monday afternoon, Canada has 10 total medals, tying for 10th in the overall medal standings.

When Lucas Pinheiro Braathen (who was raised in Norway) won Brazil’s first Olympic gold on Saturday—before Kingsbury’s win—Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur said, “The Brazilian national anthem being played at a Winter Olympics before ‘O Canada’ feels like a paperwork mistake more than anything, but there it was.” A Globe and Mail headline shouted: “8 Days, 0 Golds: Canada’s Olympic Program Plummets Off a Cliff.”

What in the name of is going on here?

In 2005, a group of Games partners came together to launch “Own The Podium,” an investment and technical support program designed to deliver top results at the Vancouver Games and prevent a repeat of 1988, when the Canadian home team won no gold medals in Calgary. The program still exists, stating its focus is “building strong systems around athletes and coaches—so they can train, compete, and recover in healthy environments that prioritize both performance and well-being.”

Canadian Olympic Committee chair David Shoemaker has been hinting at a possible medal problem in Milan, saying Canadian athletes “are increasingly having to do more with fewer resources.” According to Shoemaker, the Olympic talent pool is shrinking. “With no increase in federal government funding for national sports organizations in 20 years… national sports groups have had to make difficult choices, and those choices are manifesting in various areas,” he told the .

Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport, Adam van Koeverden, has offered a different perspective, arguing that increases in the government’s total sports spending—including at the youth and community levels—will help develop stronger athletes in the future.

But what about now? Is it too late for Canada to salvage its 2026 efforts?

Heading into Milan Cortina, Canada was second only to the U.S. in Olympic figure skating medal count. But Canada finished 5th (out of five finalists) in the team event—which usually reflects the strength of the overall skating program, as it includes all four disciplines: pairs, ice dance, women’s, and men’s. The Canadian women’s hockey team has made it to the semifinals and will likely face rival Team USA in the gold medal game on Thursday. However, Canada lost every Olympic warm-up game to the U.S., and in the Milan preliminary round, the American women beat Canada 5-0. If both the American women’s and men’s hockey teams manage to beat Canada in their respective gold medal games, President Donald Trump might have a lot to say. Trade wars and could be just the start.

Ironically, Canada’s hope might rest on the cursing curler: Kennedy’s team has a 4-1 record in round robin play.

If the Olympics end on a disappointing note, Canada can at least look forward to soccer with this summer’s World Cup—since it’s co-hosting with Mexico and the U.S. But Canada is making only its third men’s World Cup appearance ever, with a highest finish of 24th.

Global soccer, it seems, is another podium that’s hard to “own.”

— with reporting by Alice Park