The Canadian Soccer Federation coach of women’s national team suspended, Bev Priestmanfor the rest of the Olympic Games for using drones to spy on rivals’ training sessions before the Paris 2024 Games.
priest announced that he will not sit on the bench to coach Canada against New Zealand in the first game to “maintain sportsmanship” after Canadian Olympic Committee the use of drones to spy on the Oceanic team’s training sessions on July 19 and 22 was discovered, but the Canadian federation has learned that this is not a new practice.
The director and general secretary of the federation, Kevin Bluenoted: “In the last 24 hours additional information has come to our attention regarding the previous use of drones against adversaries before Paris 2024. Due to these new revelations, we have decided to suspend Bev Priestman during the rest of the Olympic Games and until our recently announced independent external review is completed.”
The penalty was announced after the return of the North American team against the New Zealand (2-1) and, from now on, he will be the assistant coach Andy Spencewho already directed that game, who will lead the team for the rest of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Last Wednesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee non-accredited analyst allowed Joseph Lombardi and the assistant coach Jasmine Manderwhere Lombardi sent a report after two drone incidents before the Olympic debut.
As explained by the federation, the current Olympic champion has used this drone practice for the longest time to spy on the training sessions of his rivals and Canadian media ‘TSN’ says that the men’s and women’s national teams are recorded sessions behind closed doors. of its rivals for many years.
‘TSN’ investigation revealed that a case of espionage was registered that took place before a match against Japanesein the group stage, in Tokyo Olympics. In those games, Canadain the direction of priestwon gold after beating Sweden in the final, on penalties, and losing Brazil in the quarterfinals on penalty kicks USA in the semi-finals.
Source: La Verdad
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