There was a moment early in the first half of the United States women's national team's opening match of their Olympics campaign when midfielder Rose Lavelle, dribbling into Sweden's half with the ball at her feet, looked around furiously and put her hands out, as if she was lost. Even without being able to hear what she said in Tokyo's cavernous Ajinomoto Stadium, it's easy to imagine it was something along the lines of, "Where is everyone?"
That, in a nutshell, was how the USWNT began their 2020 Olympics, looking confused in a 3-0 loss to open Group G.