The recent controversy known as “Dronegate” affecting the Canadian women’s soccer team showcases the newest example of technology being utilized to gain an advantage at the Olympic Games.
Before the Paris Olympic Games officially began, the Canadian women’s football team was embroiled in a scandal involving a drone flown over an opponent’s practice. New Zealand reported to French police that their practice on July 22 was disturbed by a drone, with police tracking it back to analyst Joseph Lombardi with the Canadian team.
Lombardi, head coach Bev Priestman and official Jasmine Mander were all issued one-year suspensions from any football-related activity by FIFA in response to the scandal.
Priestman also implied that drone flying is a common technique used by both men’s and women’s teams, according to the Associated Press.
Canada then failed to overturn a six-point deduction in their group and was issued a 200,000 Swiss francs (€214,845) fine. Canada is now out of medal contention after losing 1-0 in the quarterfinals to Germany in a penalty shootout on Saturday, but the so-called “Dronegate” scandal is not the first time individual athletes or coaches have been accused of using new technology to get ahead in the Olympics.
“There has been a history of what we could call ‘technological doping’ in sport,” according to Louis Nolte, teaching fellow in sports policy and management at the Scottish Centre for Olympic Research and Education at the University of Edinburgh.
“This situation is often complicated by the fact that, unlike traditional forms of doping (the use of banned substances), there is no global governing authority like the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), for technology.”
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Men Athletics: US Olympic sprint star Noah Lyles says tested positive for COVID. The 100m champion said on Thursday he tested positive two days before his bronze medal-winning performance in the men’s 200m final. Lyles, who had been bidding to achieve a 100m-200m double in Paris, was taken off the track in a wheelchair following the men’s 200m final, won by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo.
Women Athletics: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone confirmed her status as one of the most dominant athletes of the modern era with victory in the Olympic 400m hurdles final, breaking her own world record in a time of 50.37 seconds. The 25-year-old confirmed her mastery of an event in which she has now broken the world record six times when she beat the formidable Dutch star Femke Bol (52.15) easily into third at the Stade de France on Thursday night, USA’s Anna Cockrell won silver in 51.87.
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