Britain Women’s Soccer Team Will Take a Knee at Olympics

Britain Women’s Soccer Team Will Take a Knee at Olympics
The large Olympic rings are displayed in the Odaiba section of Tokyo ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 14, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP
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The British women’s soccer team plan to take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.

The players have been performing the anti-racism stance with their separate teams over the last year and the IOC relaxed its rules this month to allow Olympic athletes to make gestures of protest in the field of play at the Tokyo Games.