Women's soccer teams take a knee ahead of opening Olympic Games matches
Tim Clayton/Corbis Sport/Getty Images Alex Morgan of the US and Hanna Glas of Sweden take a knee before the start of their match. CNN — Five womenâs soccer teams took a knee ahead of their opening matches at the 2020 Summer Games. Great Britain and Chile teams took a knee on the pitch before their match, and the United States and Sweden teams knelt ahead of their clash on Wednesday. Itâs been almost five years since former NFL player Colin Kaepernick knelt during a pre-game National Anthem to protest racial inequality. Since then, and especially since George ...