FIFA docked six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s soccer tournament and banned three coaches for one year each on Saturday in a drone-spying scandal.

The stunning swath of punishments include a 200,000 Swiss francs ($226,000) fine for the Canadian soccer federation in a case that has spiraled at the Summer Games. Two assistant coaches were caught using drones to spy on opponent New Zealand’s practices before their opening game last Wednesday.

Head coach Bev Priestman, who led Canada to the Olympic title in Tokyo in 2021, already was suspended by the national soccer federation then removed from the Olympic tournament. Canadian officials suspect the spying has been systemic over years.

Priestman and assistant coaches Joseph Lombardi and Jasmine Mander are now banned from all soccer for one year.

FIFA judges said Priestman and her two assistants “were each found responsible for offensive behavior and violation of the principles of fair play.”

The case is likely now heading for the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s special Olympic court in Paris. That tribunal is set up for urgent hearings and verdicts at the Olympics.

The points deduction, if upheld by the CAS judges, does not eliminate Canada from the tournament.

Canada plays group leader France on Sunday in Saint-Etienne, then faces Colombia on Thursday in Nice.

USMNT stays alive: Djordje Mihailovic converted a penalty as the U.S. men’s soccer team pounced early in a 4-1 win over New Zealand to stave off possible elimination.

A loss in Marseille could have ended the Americans’ chance to advance to the knockout round in just their second Olympic appearance. The U.S. had lost to France in its Group A opener.

The U.S. is set to play Guinea in its final group match Tuesday in Saint-Etienne.

Titmus beats Ledecky again: Ariarne Titmus knocked off American swimming great Katie Ledecky again at the Olympics, winning the 400-meter freestyle in one of the most highly anticipated races of the Paris Games.

The Australian star known as “The Terminator” handed Ledecky another defeat in the event she won at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Canada’s Summer McIntosh took the silver, while Ledecky won bronze.

The 27-year-old Ledecky remains at six individual gold medals in her brilliant career, still the most of any female swimmer in Olympic history. For Titmus, it was her third individual gold.

Durant ‘hopefully’ will play vs. Serbia: There is hope that Kevin Durant plays for the U.S. men’s basketball team in its opener against Serbia on Sunday, which means the men’s national team may have 12 players available for the first time this summer.

That is, unless something else happens.

The Americans open their path toward what they hope is a fifth consecutive gold medal when they take on three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and World Cup finalist Serbia in the opener for both teams at the Paris Games. Durant, a three-time gold medalist, missed all five exhibition games the U.S. played coming into Paris because of a calf strain, and coach Steve Kerr stopped short of definitively saying Saturday that he is in the lineup for the opener.

“Hopefully,” Kerr said.

Durant was on the floor for practice, while presumed starting center Joel Embiid was not because of illness. Kerr said he didn’t expect Embiid to miss Sunday’s game.“I’m confident we’ll have everybody ready tomorrow,” Kerr said.

There have been signs in recent days that USA Basketball expects Durant — a three-time gold medalist, now bidding to become the first player who can say he’s a four-time Olympic men’s basketball champion — will be ready to go. First, it didn’t replace him on the roster. Second, it released clips of a Thursday scrimmage where Durant was active and even had a reverse dunk (plus got dunked on by Anthony Edwards, who idolizes him). And third, Kerr insisted earlier in the week that he wasn’t concerned about Durant’s status.

“We’ll see how things go in practice today,” Kerr said Saturday. “So far, so good. He came through the scrimmage two days ago pretty well.”

The team convened for its first practice of the summer in Las Vegas on July 6, about a week and a half after Durant strained the calf. He couldn’t take part in practices there, didn’t play in the first exhibition win over Canada before the Americans left for their overseas legs of the pre-Olympic tour and then the waiting game was on.

Durant did some on-court work in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, but missed two more exhibitions there against Serbia and Australia. He did more work in London but missed the two exhibitions the U.S. played there against South Sudan and Germany as well.