U.S. women’s soccer star Carli Lloyd stunned fans on Thursday as it appeared she was the only American player standing before the team’s match against Australia at the Tokyo Olympics. It appeared the rest of her teammates decided to kneel as a protest against racism and discrimination before the bronze-medal match against Australia. Lloyd was […]
The U.S. women’s soccer team was among the squads on Wednesday to kneel before their matches in protest of racism, discrimination and inequality as the Olympics officially got underway The U.S. and Sweden teams took a knee before their match. An official blew a whistle and all the players dropped to one knee. According to […]
U.S. Soccer has adopted a new policy requiring all players to stand for the playing of the national anthem. The move comes after one of the women’s team players, Megan Rapinoe, took a knee during the anthem in several matches last fall to protest racial oppression in the country. “We have an expectation that our […]
The Harvard men’s soccer team has been suspended for the remainder of the season after the school discovered the team had repeatedly written and circulated vulgar, sexually explicit “scouting reports” about new recruits on the women’s team, in a practice that continued up to this year. “The decision to cancel a season is serious and […]
