This Team Could Be the Best Story of the Rio Olympics

The members of Fiji's Olympic men's rugby sevens team learned the game using plastic bottles, bundled-up shirts and even flip-flops as balls––about as far removed from the sport's roots in a stuffy English prep school as one can get. They've come a long way since.

As rugby returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1924, the Pacific Island nation with fewer than 900,000 people has a strong shot at winning gold. And it's safe to say no country would appreciate it more.