Canada Soccer chief executive Kevin Blue said Canadian players had not seen any footage produced by the drone used to spy on a New Zealand training session and should not be punished by global governing body FIFA. Reigning Olympic champions Canada defeated New Zealand 2-1 in their opening match of...

Players unaware of spying scandal as Canada Olympic coach sent home: official

Awful Announcing

While the 2024 Paris Olympics are just barely underway (the Opening Ceremonies were Friday, but competition started Wednesday), there’s already a significant scandal around them. That’s around drone usage from the Canadian women’s soccer team, the defending Olympic champions. That scandal has already led to head coach Bev Priestman being sent home. It also saw Read more...
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Canadian Olympic soccer spy scandal expands

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Canadian women's soccer team manager Beverly Priestman was suspended for the duration of the Paris Olympics by the Canadian Olympic Committee amid the spying scandal

Canada Women head coach Bev Priestman sent home from Olympics after spying scandal emerges

UPI News

Canada removed Bev Priestman as its women's soccer coach for Paris 2024 after members of her support staff were caught using drones to spy on opponents during practices, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Friday.

Canada soccer coach Bev Preistman removed from Olympics amid drone spying scandal

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Canada women’s soccer coach Bev Priestman was suspended and removed from the team for the Paris Olympics in the wake of a drone-spying scandal Friday, and the head of Canada Soccer said he was investigating a potential “systemic ethical shortcoming.”. Kevin Blue, Canada Soccer’s CEO and general secretary,...

Canada women’s soccer coach suspended over drone scandal, which may be part of ‘systemic’ issues

The Canada Soccer drone cheating scandal took a sharp turn off a cliff on Thursday when it was announced that head coach Bev Priestman would be leaving the Paris Olympics. The 38-year-old Priestman had previously removed herself from coaching Canada’s opening match against New Zealand when multiple allegations of cheating came to light this week.

With Priestman suspended, Canada’s spy surveillance shown to go beyond Paris Olympics

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Ronkonkoma, NY

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Colleton County, SC

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The Canadian soccer teams would do anything to win matches, even if that means allegedly spying on opponents. The women's national team was caught spying on a private New Zealand practice earlier this week, and that's led to a history of dishonest and rule-breaking practices from the country's national soccer teams being uncovered.

Canada soccer drone scandal, explained: New details allege Canadian men's and women's national teams spied 'for years'

A Canada women’s soccer team staff member has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence after a drone incident, the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office said.

Canadian women’s soccer team staffer given suspended prison sentence over drone incident, prosecutor says

By most measures, it was an expected result in the opening of pool play for Team Canada’s defending gold-medal champion women’s soccer team, as they downed New Zealand, 2-1, in the Paris Olympics. But by another measure it might well have been the end of what many see as the height of the program in Canada’s sporting history.

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Norfolk, VA

Four Virginians were confirmed to be onboard when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Phillip Acts and Selini Decker, who lived a few blocks apart in Norfolk, died when the ship sank. Richmond native Robert Decker and Eloise Smith, who later moved to Richmond from West Virginia, survived.

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Oh, Canada. What have you done?
The Paris Olympics hadn’t even held its opening ceremony by the time the 2024 Summer Games found itself embroiled in a massive cheating scandal.
On July 23, the Canadian women’s soccer team was caught allegedly using drones to spy on their opponents‘ closed-door training sessions. What was first explained as an isolated incident with a “non-accredited” staffer gone rogue has since unraveled, exposing an alleged years-long surveillance program run by both the Canadian men’s and women’s that calls into question the women’s gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics among other accolades.
Canada has A LOT of...

7 brazen Summer Olympics cheating scandals beyond the Canada Soccer drone controversy

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Days of Our Lives alum Jessica Serfitay retracts her statement that her fiance abused her

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Canadian women's soccer docked, coaches suspended over drone spying scandal

Soccer's governing body announced Saturday it is docking six points from the Canadian women's soccer team at the Paris Olympics and suspending its head coach and...

Canadian women's soccer docked, coaches suspended over drone spying scandal

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