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Vanessa Gilles scored in the 62nd minute to give Canada a 1-0 victory over Colombia and send the team into the quarter-finals of the football competition of the Paris Olympics on Wednesday despite losing six points in the tournament because of a drone-spying scandal.
Canada will face Germany in a quarter-final on Saturday in Marseille.
Earlier in the day, the defending Olympic champions lost their bid to overturn the FIFA-ordered points deduction for filming an opponent’s practice in France.
Canada, which won its first two matches but earned no points from those victories, went into Wednesday’s match in Nice in need of a win to stand a chance of advancing.
“Going into the match we wanted to win regardless of what that ruling was,” Canada Captain Jesse Fleming said. “It did not change our game plan or what we wanted to do.”