The members of Fiji’s Olympic men’s rugby 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….

Kolinisau [the team captain] makes a persuasive pitch for all fans to hop on

the Flying Fijians bandwagon (should such a thing exist). “We’re punching

way above our weight,” he says. “While other nations get millions of dollars

in funding, we get scraps. If we win the gold, we’ll show the world that a tiny

nation can do anything.” Use the race stratagy