Canada players react after losing a women's quarterfinal soccer match against Germany at the 2024 Summer Olympics,at Marseille Stadium in Marseille, France.

Jasmine Mander, the assistant coach of the Canadian women’s national soccer team who was at the centre of last year’s drone scandal at the Paris Olympics, said on Wednesday that she felt she had no choice but to go along with Canada Soccer’s spying on other teams because working for the organization led her to believe it was a normal part of the global game.

“At first, I was really surprised by this, but the longer I worked in the game, the more I heard firsthand that this kind of stuff really did happen around the world,” she wrote in an article published by The Players’ Tribune, the athlete-friendly site specializing in first-perso

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