The Canada spying dilemma has led to a factors deduction and coaches’ suspensions, and Canada issued an attraction in opposition to the penalty. Following revelations that Canada spied on New Zealand forward of their first sport on the Olympics occasion for girls’s soccer, punishments rained in. Three members of the Canada ladies’s teaching workers, together with head coach Beverly Priestman, picked up one-year suspensions. Moreover, Canada suffered a six-point slap within the 2024 Olympic Girls’s Soccer match. That made it severely difficult for Canada to flee the group stage and defend its Olympic Gold Medal from Tokyo 2020.
Now, Canada Soccer and the Canada Olympic Committee have formally filed an attraction to the Courtroom of Arbitration of Sport. The purpose of the attraction is to both totally remove or not less than scale back the six-point penalty that Canada suffered. Notably, this doesn’t embody the coaches. Beverly Priestman will nonetheless serve her one-year suspension away from the Canada ladies’s nationwide crew.
With the six-point penalty in impact, Canada is third in its Girls’s Olympic Soccer group after two video games. Two wins have successfully worn out that penalty, however Canada stays on the surface wanting in. One-goal wins over New Zealand and France, with the latter requiring a purpose within the twelfth minute of stoppage time. France and Colombia are every sitting on one win, placing them three factors forward of Canada. But, even with the six-point slap, Canada can get into the quarterfinals of the ladies’s soccer occasion with a win over Colombia. Either side could be on three factors and, no matter what would occur within the France-New Zealand sport, Canada would undergo.
Choice from Canada attraction in opposition to factors deduction comes earlier than remaining group-stage sport
Submitting an attraction on Monday, July 29, comes two days earlier than Canada’s remaining sport in opposition to Colombia. That offers the authorities time to evaluate the attraction and decide if it ought to scale back or take away the penalty. All indicators level to that eventual choice coming down noon on July 31. That’s, crucially, earlier than Canada performs Colombia in that remaining group-stage sport. Due to this fact, Canada will know what it has to do earlier than kicking off in opposition to Colombia.
As acknowledged, a win is sufficient to get into the quarterfinals of ladies’s soccer on the Olympics. It might be stage on factors with Colombia with a greater purpose differential. France may end on the high of the group with a win over New Zealand. Then, if New Zealand wins, France will drop beneath Canada if the Canucks defeat their South American rivals.
That stated, a factors discount drastically modifications the outlook of the group. For instance, if Canada earns three factors again from its authentic penalty, France is now not protected. That may imply France must win in opposition to New Zealand. Regardless of the consequence is, Group A will come right down to the ultimate stage. All 4 groups are, not less than mathematically, nonetheless alive to achieve the quarterfinals. Canada remains to be trying to retain its gold medal from the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past. The choice from the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport will play a serious position in that prospect.
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