The US women lost their first-ever Olympic rugby match
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The silver lining to the US women's rugby team's losing its first-ever Olympic game is that it gets a chance at redemption later on Saturday.
In the Olympic debut for both teams, Fiji edged the Americans 12-7 on the first day of the Rio de Janeiro games.
Rugby has been absent from the Olympics since 1924 and women's rugby had never been included.
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Fiji scored three minutes into the match to make it 7-0 and then again 30 seconds into the second half. The US managed one try, but couldn't mount a rally after that.
The US team faces Colombia tonight at 5 p.m. ET.