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The Australian women’s rugby sevens team celebrate after winning their Commonwealth Games gold-medal match against Fiji at Coventry Stadium in Birmingham.
The Australian women’s rugby sevens team celebrate after winning their Commonwealth Games gold-medal match against Fiji at Coventry Stadium in Birmingham. Photograph: Matt Impey/AAP

Bottles were popped on the Gold Coast as Australia’s newest rugby sevens stars tended to unfinished business in the Commonwealth Games on the other side of the world.

A 22-12 defeat of Fiji in the gold medal game in Coventry, just outside of host city Birmingham, on Sunday night erased the pain of an extra-time loss to New Zealand four years earlier.

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