The range of possible outcomes has been truncated. At one end is total cancellation; at the other, not a successful games, but a fiasco that, despite everything, manages to happen.

但结局的可能范围已大大缩小：一头是干脆取消，另一头是绝非一场成功的运动会，而是一场无论如何都可能发生的大丢颜面的惨败。

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Rugby union was last part of the Olympics in 1924 in the full 15-man version of the code, and will return to the Games in the truncated seven-a-side version.

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Three games will open the truncated regular season at 3 p.m.

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