Canada has lost its appeal against the deduction of six competition points following a drone-spying scandal in the Olympic women’s soccer tournament.

Fan Yang and Yang Yang asked for 6 months to prepare for a criminal trial against them. The process will also involve the use of a classified information security officer to review classified information that is expected to be part of the pretrial discovery process. The government wants to avoid the “unnecessary disclosure” of classified information in the case. A separate detention hearing for the Yangs’ co-defendants, Ge Song Tao and Zheng Yan, was postponed until Jan. 16. Fan Yang is a lieutenant in the anti-submarine warfare unit at NAS Jacksonville and has top security clearances.