Team USA stun rugby world with 'outrageous' medal win, planting flag for sport in America
Team USA stunned the rugby sevens world with a miraculous 14-12 victory over Australia to bring home the first medal in the sport for U.S. women.
PARIS — There’s no real equivalent of Little League for rugby in America.
A version of “Hoosiers” or “Friday Night Lights” hasn’t been made — not yet, at least — to romanticize the popular English-rooted sport to U.S. audiences.
Yet somehow, a dozen 20- and 30-something American women tripped into this sport and then went toe-to-toe against elite athletes from countries where rugby is sacred.
"Yeah it's a little crazy, huh?" U.S. player Kristi Kirshe told NBC News on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the Eagles stunned the rugby sevens world with a miraculous 14-12 victory over Australia to bring home the first medal in the sport for U.S. women.
Salt Lake City native Alex "Spiff" Sedrick furiously ran the length of the field as time expired and then hit a bronze-clinching conversion for the dramatic win.
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