Former U.S. women's national soccer team star Carli Lloyd has no regrets about refusing to join her teammates in kneeling for the national anthem during her final international championship match in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medal game.
"I just felt that we had done enough of the kneeling and I just wanted to stand for my last World Championship game." "I'm sure, 'cause I was the only one standing," she said when Abdo asked if her refusal sent a message to those watching around the world."I just thought that we had done enough of the kneeling, and I just wanted to stand in my last world championship game."
Everyone is entitled to have a different opinion, but a point has been reached where"if it's not a certain opinion, then other people can't have their other opinions. So, it's kind of contradicting itself ... in that moment I was like, I just had enough of kneeling right before the game."