Disaster-hit student athletes head to Sochi

Disaster-hit student athletes head to Sochi

NARITA, Japan - Japanese junior high school athletes from regions devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami pose for photos on Feb. 16, 2014, at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, prior to their departure on a weeklong study tour to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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