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Olympics 2012: Female Athletes Travel Economy While Men Fly Business Class
PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted: 20/07/2012 15:22 Updated: 20/07/2012 15:51
Sports governing bodies from Japan and Australia are under fire after complaints that male Olympic athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in the cheap seats.
Japan's world champion women's football team took exception to flying economy while their male counterparts sat in business class on a flight to Europe for the Olympics.
The Japan Football Association said the men flew in business because they are professionals.
The women's team was assigned seats in premium economy for the 13-hour flight to Paris while the nation's under-23 men's team was up front on the same flight.
"It should have been the other way around," 2011 FIFA women's world player of the year Homare Sawa told Japanese media after arriving in the French capital. "Even just in terms of age we are senior."
Basketball Australia says it will review its travel policy for national teams after complaints that the men flew business class to the Olympics while most of the women sat in premium economy.
Sexism? Awful! Hopefully no athletes have been down graded to ??? "journeys of inspiration?"
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