Olympic travel a big challenge for some Pacific Island teams

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By Yoongi in Sports
Updated 3 years ago

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Famous athletes in sports like tennis and golf heading to the Tokyo Olympics will probably arrive in Japan at the front of the plane. It's a style to which the athletes of the Pacific Islands are unaccustomed. Fiji's gold medal-winning men's rugby sevens team will arrive in Tokyo along with the other members of their national team on Thursday on a cargo/freight flight which is hauling mostly frozen fish.

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