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PARIS :Defending champions Canada reached the quarter-finals of the women's Olympic football tournament on Wednesday thanks to a 1-0 win over Colombia in Nice hours after they had an appeal against their six-point deduction dismissed.
Vanessa Gilles scored in the 62nd minute to give Canada a 1-0 victory over Colombia and send the team into the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics on Wednesday despite losing six points in the tournament because of a drone spying scandal.
Canadian soccer officials admitted in evidence to FIFA that spying on opponents was routinely done, for the men’s national team as well as the women’s team, which has been punished for using drones at the Paris Olympics.
Canada’s women’s team have lost their appeal against a six-point deduction at the Paris Olympics after a drone was used to spy on a rival team’s training session.
Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove will start the men's skiff medal race in second place after a strong finish to the opening series.
Emails released by FIFA indicate drone usage for the purposes of spying may have been a common practice across Canada Soccer's senior national teams.
With an Olympic silver medal in hand and a smoother coaching transition, a young Canadian women's rugby sevens team has Los Angeles 2028 in its sights.
The group stage of the 2024 Olympic Games women's soccer tournament draws to a close on Wednesday, with Canada's women looking to overcome the odds and qualify despite having six points deducted over a drone-spying scandal.