U.S. Olympians: gold-worthy performances in social protest; in athletic competition not so much

If the Tokyo Olympics offered medals for protesting, the U.S. team should improve markedly on its thus-far disappointing showing in the games, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza recently cracked.

"Let's award medals for the best kneeling performance, the best Black Power salute, the most exhibitionistic media tantrum," D'Souza suggested on GETTR.

He may have a point.

The U.S. Olympic team is off to a sluggish start in Tokyo, to put it mildly. U.S. athletes failed to deliver a medal on the first day of competition, something that hasn't happened in nearly 50 years.

It's only gotten worse from there.

The women's soccer team, expected to snag the gold, got shut out in its very first match against Sweden. That shocker ended the team's 44-game unbeaten streak, and it couldn't have come at a worse time.