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A journalistic investigation highlights the practices of a national selection, already under fire last summer in France, for having spied on an opposing team during the Paris Olympic Games.
The Canadian women’s national team is once again in turmoil. A few weeks after the end of the Paris Olympic Games, during which the team found itself singled out for having illegally spied on an opposing selection, the Canadian press published a series of serious revelations.
The newspaper The Globe and Mail made public the fruit of investigative work surrounding the Olympic champion team in 2021. According to the media, the members of the staff, in charge until last summer and who have since left, had established very specific practices on the eve of certain meetings.
Parties, called “special staff evenings” and reserved for coaches and sports staff (not the players), during which “drinking” was “obligatory”. According to RMC Sport, which had access to the entire investigation, sex toys were sometimes thrown at participants. Board games of a sexual nature were also played.
The Globe and Mail has also obtained videos on which we see members of the staff performing a “queue leu leu” in a bathrobe or even the coach at the time, Bev Priestman, partying in the middle of the night on the eve of a match .
The investigation also reveals a difficult and tense collective climate within the team, notably conveyed at the time, according to the media, by Bev Priestman and her entourage, as well as practices of spying on opposing selections rooted in customs for several years.
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