A Canadian assistant women's soccer coach and an analyst have been kicked off the Olympic team after New Zealand's team said their training session was disrupted by a drone flown by their Team Canada opponents.
said their team had their training session disrupted by a drone flown by a staff member of their Group A opponents, the Canadian Olympic Committee said Wednesday.
"Joseph Lombardi, an unaccredited analyst with Canada Soccer, is being removed from the Canadian Olympic Team and will be sent home immediately," COC said in a statement. "This does not represent the values that our team stands for. I am ultimately responsible for conduct in our program. The drone was flown on Monday and the incident was reported by the NZOC to the police and to the International Olympic Committee's integrity unit.
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