Canada’s Olympic drone spying scandal a symptom of an ‘unacceptable culture’

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The drone spying scandal that erupted during Canada's women's football team's 2024 Paris Olympics campaign was a symptom of a past pattern of an unacceptable culture", Canada Soccer has said after an independent review.

The Canadian women's camp made global headlines after a drone was allegedly used to spy on a training session of one of their opponents, New Zealand. The head coach, Bev Priestman, was subsequently banned by Fifa for a year, while analyst Joseph Lombardi and the assistant coach Jasmine Mander were also banned following the allegations, and Priestman was removed from her role.