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Canadian women’s football staff sent home from Olympics over drone incident

Canada women's football team players walk on the pitch at Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 23, 2024, in Saint-Etienne, France [Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo]

Canadian women’s football coach Bev Priestman has removed herself from opening match duties at the Paris Olympics while an assistant coach and a team analyst were kicked out of the Games after a spying scandal engulfed the tournament.

The sport’s governing body FIFA said on Wednesday that it had begun disciplinary proceedings after New Zealand’s women’s team said a training session this week had been disrupted by a drone flown by a Canadian team staff member.

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