U.S. Women's Soccer

Rapinoe has just returned from the Tokyo Olympics while former goalkeeper Solo was kicked off the team in 2016 just after returning from the Rio Olympics.

Hope Solo left the team in August 2016 and Megan Rapinoe first started kneeling during the national anthem in September 2016.

After playing for the U.S. national women's team for 17 years, Lloyd announced her retirement on Monday.

"The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job," Donald Trump said in a statement.

"In effect, the court held that pay is equal if a woman can obtain the same amount of money as a man by working more and performing better," the players said.

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe could become a two-time Olympic champion this month should the U.S. Women's National Team win gold in Tokyo.

Japan's high-pressure culture of conformity and "coming out" as LGBTQ is rare. In sports, it's almost unheard of, which activists say reveals an unfriendly environment for LGBTQ people because of sports' gender specificity.

"I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense bill to ensure a level playing field for everyone, including our top-notch U.S. Women's National Soccer Team," West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin said on Wednesday.

From the U.S. Women's Soccer team in court to LeBron James on the court, here is the first installment of the top 20 moments in sports during 2020.

Joe Biden said U.S. Soccer should immediately pay men's and women's teams equally, "or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding."

Despite winning the Women's World Cup last year, the women's national team will not get paid the same as the men's team based on technicalities of contracts.

The drawing of teams, schedule of games and provisional rosters have been set for the 2020 Women's CONCACAF (The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) Olympic qualifiers, providing the path the U.S. team must take to qualify.

Research has shown the allure of collective anger, especially on social media.

Rapinoe on Tuesday explained why Team USA will not be accepting an invitation to visit the White House from President Trump.

"If you go out and you disparage the president, you act in unpatriotic ways and then complain about not getting paid equally, well, what do you think is going to happen? People are not going to watch," Watters said.

"The country has been lost. However I am determined to go down swinging by ruining soccer for as many people as possible," Coulter tweeted on Sunday.

Rapinoe and Lavelle's goals broke a scoreless tie between the two teams that lasted well into the second half of the match and lifted the club to it's second consecutive World Cup title.

"We'd rather hear from the team of under-15-year-old boys who beat them," Coulter tweeted, including a link to an interview Team USA's Ali Kreiger gave to CNN on July 4 about the ongoing controversy surrounding the women's soccer team.

On Monday, Rapinoe was photographed wearing tape on her right hamstring during practice, suggesting she has been benched for medical reasons.

Riffing on the triumphant moment, Twitter users quickly turned the photograph into a new meme celebrating their own big and small accomplishments.

Megan Rapinoe kneeled during the anthem to speak out "for people that are oppressed." U.S. Soccer responded by creating a bylaw requiring players to stand.

The new suit from the U.S. women's soccer team prompts tougher questions about equity in sports.

"The pay disparity between the men and the women is just too large."

The all-time leading international scorer will hang it up after the U.S. completes its World Cup victory tour in December.

For first time, a female sports team is honored with a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan's "Canyon of Heroines."