The Canadian Olympic Committee has eliminated Canadian girls’s nationwide soccer crew coach Bev Priestman from the Canadian Olympic crew, the committee introduced on Thursday. Priestman was already suspended for Canada’s first group stage match of the Olympics towards New Zealand, which they gained 2-1, resulting from her employees utilizing a drone to spy over their opponent’s coaching session. 

“Over the previous 24 hours, further info has come to our consideration relating to earlier drone use towards opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games,” Canada Soccer CEO & common secretary Kevin Blue mentioned in an announcement. “In mild of those new revelations, Canada Soccer has made the choice to droop girls’s nationwide soccer crew head coach Bev Priestman for the rest of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, and till the completion of our just lately introduced impartial exterior evaluation.”

TSN reported that Canada’s males’s and girls’s soccer groups have relied on spying for years, together with throughout Canada’s 2021 Olympic gold-medal profitable marketing campaign. 

The Canadian girls’s nationwide crew shall be led by assistant coach Andy Spence for the rest of the match. Whereas the prolonged suspension is not immediately in response to that report, it does present that this could possibly be greater than a one-time occasion which the Canadian Olympic Committee goals to resolve.

CBC reported on Thursday that the particular person on the middle of the drone scandal, Joseph Lombardi, is additionally a director of a nationwide youth program with Canada Soccer.