We’ve been writing about the “go woke, go broke” U.S. women’s soccer team, who had to settle for the bronze medal after suffering stunning losses to Sweden and to Canada.

But before their bronze medal game yesterday, maybe a little light shone through. When the team knelt in solidarity with BLM yet again, one U.S. player continued to stand, the best player on the team — Carli Lloyd. The Australian team also stood.

ALL the USWNT players and staff knelt. All except Carli Lloyd. To say Lloyd is a "somebody" on the team is an understatement.

Also surprised to see Australia didn't kneel and are actually standing in solidarity opposite the U.S.

Not sure what's going on here. But interesting. pic.twitter.com/7RPab0IWn1

— Edward Chang (@Edward_Chang_8) August 5, 2021

Here’s an angle that says it all.

This is likely Lloyd’s final major competition. She single-handedly won two final matches for USWNT. She goes out, standing tall. pic.twitter.com/5qXWySqv9q

— Edward Chang (@Edward_Chang_8) August 5, 2021

She participated and scored in four different Olympics. She also played in 312 international matches. In the bronze medal match, she scored two goals, making her total Olympic goals the most for any U.S. woman in history.

But some, like this Washington Post reporter, questioned why she wasn’t kneeling.

I think Carli Lloyd has spoken about why she doesn't want to kneel during the national anthem. But I'm curious if anyone has asked her why she chose not to take a knee for a minute before kickoff along with every other American player, staff member, and referee pic.twitter.com/aI1SAehJrN

— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) August 5, 2021

Who she should be questioning is the other women: Do they understand why they are kneeling and what it represents to many people? That’s what a reporter should be doing.

Lloyd touched on the question of kneeling in the past.

Here’s what she said in 2019 when she called such kneeling during the anthem a “distraction,” indicating that she thought this was the wrong platform for such things. “At the end of the day, I’m really proud to be an American,” Lloyd said. “I’m really proud to wear the red, white and blue. I’m proud to salute the flag.”

Meanwhile, imagine how fast the radicalism has moved that now the whole team, but Lloyd, is kneeling.

You could already see that she was different from Megan Rapinoe, who started the kneeling. After they lost their shot at the gold medal game, Rapinoe was giving interviews and tearing up, thinking about herself. But you could see Lloyd in the background after their loss running sprinting drills in the background. That says a tremendous amount right there.

Megan Rapinoe got choked up when asked about a moment she & Carli Lloyd shared after the loss to Canada in (likely) their last Olympics. Meanwhile Carli is running suicides in the background the entire interview. @CarliLloyd is a warrior & an inspiration. #USWNT #Tokyo2020 #USA pic.twitter.com/c2B9hPIfso

— Kylen Mills (@KylenMills) August 2, 2021

Nice to see that at least one person among all the team and staff would finally stand for America.