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Canada to be potentially stripped of gold medal after wild cheating scandal

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Tyler Ball
July 26, 2024  (4:50 PM)
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Canadian Women's Soccer team celebrating after winning the Olympic Gold Medal in 2021.
Photo credit: Sportsnet

Today new reports are coming out from a major scandal involving Canada's soccer teams at the Summer Olympics that could lead to loss of a gold medal.

Over the past couple of days, a wild set of events has taken place exposing a cheating scandal from the Canadian Soccer Federation. According to these reports, Canada has been using drones to film other teams' practice sessions on both the men's and women's sides.

Canada's men's and women's soccer teams have relied on drones and spying for years, sources say

Coaching staff and contractors working with Canada's men's and women's national soccer teams have been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their opponents, including during the women's gold-medal winning Olympic tournament in 2021, sources told TSN.

Team Canada is the defending gold medalist from the last Olympics. However, this scandal coming to light has now put major stress on their chances to repeat. Canada announced that head coach Bev Priestman would not be part of the coaching staff for the Olympics. She will be replaced by assistant coach Andy Spence for the Paris Olympics.

The Canadian Olympic Committee has removed CWNT head coach, Bev Priestman from the Canadian Olympic Team.

Assistant coach Andy Spence will lead the CWNT for the remainder of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

With an investigation now underway there will likely be consequences from both the International Olympic & Paralympic Committee and the Canadian Olympic Committee as well. As those rulings are made public and official we will pass them along to you.

Source: Puck Reporter Gold medal to be stripped off of Team Canada after major cheating incident

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