(July 31) Here’s why some Americans want the US women’s football team to lose at Tokyo Olympics
Many could not hide their glee after the US soccer team endured a humiliating defeat against Sweden in their opening match of the Olympics.
"There’s something you normally don’t witness during the Olympics: people wishing and passionately cheering for the defeat of their own football team.
"Usually, people go out on a limb to support their national team, even if the chances of their winning are bleak. However, this time around, American fans were so thoroughly repulsed by their own women soccer team that they prayed with all their might for their defeat and elimination from the Olympics.
"A large number of US citizens do not want to see their women soccer team win at the Olympics. Their reason being that the team is too woke to a fault, which they claim is unduly affecting their performance. They want their team to lose so that the players realise the perils of warming up to the evil of wokeism. And their discontent with the US women soccer team was manifest in their social media posts when they suffered an unexpected defeat against Sweden in the opening match at the Olympics." . . .
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"They turned their backs on us, we turned our backs on them. Fair is fair.
"US Women's Soccer Team = LOSERS" ...
"Not because of the results on the field but because they disrespected the US and all Americans" ...
"I don't recall being this happy from a sporting event result in a very long time, not because I'm Canadian, but because the US womens soccer team lost.""Honestly could[n't] care less about the lesbian business, but she is American-hating is a huuge problem! And, wokeness is thee worst!"
"Poor gals, no chance to kneel, turn around, or abuse the flag. Are they crying on the flight home, I hope?"
. . . "Controversy has followed the team since some of the players became political activists instead of focusing on winning. The main instigator of the move to “wokeness” is Megan Rapinoe who wears her activism on her sleeve. The entire team wore BLM t-shirts during warm-ups for their last game against Mexico before traveling to the Olympics."
"Many on the team kneel or ignore the National Anthem by staying in the locker room during its playing. What they don’t get is that they have the freedom to make asses of themselves by hating their home country but they wouldn’t have those same freedoms in so many other places." . . .