On what should have been a proud day for the Canadian Olympic Committee in Paris, the drone scandal continued to upstage all other stories, including the Canadian athletes competing in 31 other sports
Canada's head coach Bev Priestman walks along the touch line prior to first half International friendly action against Mexico in Toronto, on Tuesday June 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris YoungCanadian Olympic Committee chief executive officer David Shoemaker says the head coach of its women’s soccer team was “highly likely to have been aware” drones were used to spy on an opponent’s practices in France.
“One of the key pieces of information was the conclusion from Canada Soccer that she needed to be suspended based on their accumulation of facts,” said Shoemaker in a press conference on Friday in Paris. “I’ve seen some of them, some of the information they have, and we got some additional information ourselves. That made me conclude that she was highly likely to have been aware of the incidents in St-Etienne.
As the COC swung wide the doors of its new Canadian Olympic House in Paris Friday morning and readied its athletes to participate in the Opening Ceremony along the River Seine, the federation’s “shock and disappointment” over the drone spying scandal permeated the discussion at the COC’s press conference to open the Games.
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