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Canada loses appeal against drone penalty
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31 Jul 2024 / sports law Print

Canada loses appeal against drone penalty

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed an appeal filed by Canada against a six-point deduction imposed on its women’s football team at the Olympic Games.

The country’s Olympic and football authorities had appealed after FIFA took disciplinary proceedings against the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA).

FIFA also suspended three CSA officials for a year for breaches of the rules linked to the use of drones over training sites.

Zero points

A CSA analyst was found to have used a drone to view a training session held by one of Canada’s opponents, New Zealand, last week.

Canada won the match 2-1, and also beat France, but the deduction now means that they go into the final group game against Colombia with zero points.

The decision today (31 July) was taken by CAS’s ad hoc division, which is sitting in Paris during the Olympic Games. The grounds for the decision will be published at a later date.

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