Team USA wins bronze in women's rugby sevens, the first medal ever for the American women and first USA medal in rugby since 1924.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Alex Sedrick scored a long try as time expired and then hit a bronze-clinching conversion to give the United States a miraculous 14-12 victory over Australia on Tuesday. The result earned the U.S. women's rugby sevens team its first Olympic medal. Maddison Levi's try with about 85 seconds remaining gave Australia a 12-7 lead that appeared to have won it for the 2016 gold medalists.
' The team's regular kicker wasn't on the field when Sedrick scored, so the 26-year-old from Salt Lake City stepped up for the not-so-routine kick that she put through the uprights. The Americans had a tall hill to climb to capture a medal coming into Tuesday, first facing and losing to defending champion New Zealand. A victory over Australia, beaten by silver medalist Canada in the other semifinal match, seemed an unlikely task.
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