The Australian women’s football team failed to make the knock-out stage of the Olympics for the first time since Sydney 2000 after a 2-1 defeat to the already qualified United States on Wednesday. Meanwhile Canada were through to the quarter-finals despite a six-point deduction in the tournament due to a drone spying scandal which broke shortly before its opening match against New Zealand, which they won 2-1. The Australians, who were fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, lost 3-0 to Rio 2016 gold medallists Germany in their opener and pulled off an incredible comeback from 5-2 down to defeat Zam…