Canada has made several major technology gaffes lately, given their rushed immoral approval of the Cybertruck, and now this:

Coaching staff and contractors working with Canada’s men’s and women’s national soccer teams have been engaged for years in efforts to film the closed-door training sessions of their opponents, including during the women’s gold-medal winning Olympic tournament in 2021, two sources with first-hand knowledge of the activity told TSN.

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On Thursday, Canada beat New Zealand 2-1 in their Olympic tournament opener.

Lombardi was caught by French police on Monday, after they saw him retrieve a drone that had been flying over the New Zealand team’s training, The Globe and Mail reported. The Globe reported that police retrieved footage of a second New Zealand training session from the drone and also obtained text messages between Lombardi and Mander. The text messages reportedly showed that Mander was aware of Lombardi’s activities.

Interesting how the French Police have been so quick and effective at drone prohibition, given Canada has gotten away with cheating for so many years. Apparently they cheat the most at home games?

Ironically, either these hyper-competitive Canadian coaches weren’t improving basic drone secrecy protocols at all (e.g. use a dead drop) or they fell into the trap of believing their own lies.

Related: the unsafe and unreliable Cybertruck can’t be driven in France.

Parce que les piétons ne sont pas les mêmes aux USA tout simplement : les américains ont une couche de gras supplémentaires les protégeant en cas de choc : cette couche absorbe les chocs et protége les piétons.