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Sport Canada is withholding funding relating to its women’s football coach, Bev Priestman, and two other suspended team officials after a drone scandal

Canada Soccer has been sanctioned and docked 6 points at Paris 2024, while coach Bev Priestman has been banned from football for 12 months.

Priestman was sent home from Paris after drones were use to spy on Canada’s Olympics opponents.

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.”

Canada's Paris Olympics women's football campaign has begun amid great controversy enveloping the national team

‘Additional information’ about previous drone usage ahead of Paris 2024 has come to light, leading Priestman to be suspended until an external review is completed

Two members of the staff within Canadian set-up had already been sent home

The drone was used to spy on New Zealand training sessions.

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) announced on Thursday that Bev Priestman, the head coach of the women's football team, has been dismissed from her position. This decision follows Canada Soccer's suspension of Priestman in the wake of a drone spying controversy that has brought unwanted international attention to the 2020…