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Japan's women Olympic team outnumber men for the first time

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You go girls!!!!

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Girl Power ! ! !

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I'm sure the women athletes will still be flying to Sochi in coach while the male athletes get first class.

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@Japan Yesterday - they had better not be put in coach. That would be a real shame. And I shameful.

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I've seen this trend coming... Best of luck to all athletes!

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You'd better be going first class, babes!

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I'm pretty sure the male athletes are happy with these odds! And Olympians are famous for their, ahem - "night activities"- so looks like all the blokes are in with a big chance at the after parties!

Good luck to them all.

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Nobody remembers the Nadeshiko Japan/Samura Blue embarrassment?

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But girls will ride coach while the guys while in guys will ride first class?

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Both males and females got 1sr class just like in past. Do you have info they suddenly changed this year?

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Toshiko. Fact link please? From what I have heard you're incorrect.

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Good on the ladies, though I don't think the ice-hockey team will make it very far, and hence a large number of the delegation will be cut.

"Japan’s chef de mission to Sochi, former Olympic women’s speed skater and cyclist Seiko Hashimoto, has set the goal of breaking their best medal haul—10 medals including five golds won in Nagano"

And once again we're setting up for the news report where they need to apologize and wonder why South Korea got ten times the medals Japan did. Just say you're going to do your best and hope for medals -- all of this "We're entitled to get five golds" is utter nonsense and indeed over-ambitious. Japan has already claimed the gold for the ski-jump with Sara, but now are panicking because she's 'lost' the last two competitions.

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@toshiko

Do you mean "in the past" like when the ladies soccer team, who took silver, flew economy while the men, who took diddly squat, flew first class?

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@cortez: Nose JOC executive commitee that arrange discount group travels,

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The actual delegation includes more officials than athletes. What's the gender make-up there? My guess is that it is overwhelmingly male. I'd love to see the stats.

As for why S.Korea does better than Japan, it's simple. S.Korea cares more about medals. The government invests heavily in a few promising athletes, rather than spreading the money around for the benefit of regular folk. Instead of building sports facilities for the general public, money is put into sending the chosen few to train abroad. Personally, I'm happier with the Japanese (and Canadian way). And I don't see any shame in not having a big medal haul. Better to have pride in overall national level of fitness and health, I think.

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What's with the thumbs down for those of us who think the ladies should be treated the same?

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