Paris 2024 Olympics: FIFA strips Canada six factors over drone incident | Information Paris 2024 Olympics

Adeyemi Adeyemi

International Courant

The Canadian girls’s nationwide soccer crew, which gained gold on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been stripped of six factors by FIFA and coach Bev Priestman has been suspended for a 12 months.

FIFA has stripped Canada of six factors on the Paris Girls’s Olympic soccer event and banned three coaches for one 12 months every over a drone spying scandal.

The gorgeous collection of punishments, introduced late Saturday night time, features a 200,000 Swiss franc ($226,000) advantageous for the Canadian Soccer Federation in a case that has gained momentum through the Summer time Olympics.

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Bev Priestman withdrew from the reigning champions’ opening match of the Olympic Video games towards New Zealand on Wednesday after the scandal got here to mild. (File: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Reuters)

The coaches and the Canadian federation can enchantment their sanctions to the Particular Olympics Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Paris, which is about up for emergency hearings and rulings through the Olympic Video games.

Priestman, 38, hails from England and was employed as Canada’s coach in 2020. She is below contract via the 2027 Girls’s World Cup.

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