Olympics... I've just read that Australia and Japan...

[Kayano]

Sent the mens Olympic team business class and made the women fly economy! This includes the teams where the women have out performed the men!

I'm really annoyed at that!!!!

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really bad - the Japanese women's team are the World Champions ffs

and the men's team are the under-23 side, with nothing to show for themselves

Yes it is all over the Australian papers today. Completely disgraceful! We have a very strong Commissioner of Equal Opportunity here and she is raising hell about this.
Our womens' basketball team have won silver in the last 3 Olympics as opposed to the men winning nothing...I think they should reverse the flights on the way home.

What the hell were they thinking?!?! Idiots

Stuff like this is just such a piss-take. Like they're deliberately setting out to rile women. Weird behaviour.

They were making some bullshit excuse around the men being taller and therefore needing the extra legroom...

In likelihood what it boils down to is that men's sport attracts larger audiences and therefore more sponsorship, so there is a larger budget for team travel etc.

However - for something like the Olympics national governments should be ensuring that something like this does not happen.

I'm gong to assume that actually women's basketball players would need extra leg room too. That's shocking

i find this really quite hard to belive.
the link was about teh jappanese team, i know bugerall about japanese culture but maybe that has something to do with it, rightly or wrongly.
but the austrailian team?

THere was a bit about this in the Guardian on Friday
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/19/japan-female-atheletes-economy-class
The excuse was that the men are professionals, but the women are amateurs. Apparently the women's team got upgrades when they flew back from the World Cup after winning.

It should not matter. They are all athletes going to represent their countries at the same event. There should be no discrepancy

That was a great big pile of steaming shit.

There is nothing they can say that will not make them sound like complete wankers because they are fucking wankers.

The women's team are better than the men's team.

I make no comment about the Japanese team, I don't know enough about the it. But Basketball Australia needs to get their fucking act together.

Can you tell this really pissed me off.

They don't need to reverse the flights, they just all need to be treated equally from now on.

Wankers.

I would love to see the reaction around the world if the South Africans sent black people economy and the white people business class. There would be an uproar. This is exactly the same I dont understand why it is allowed to happen.

Many women tell me feminism is unnecessary. What has to happen to wake them up.