Former Japan Olympian and top marathon media analyst Akemi Masuda is not the kind of person to mince words when it comes to forecasting on her favorite sport.
Speaking to the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan in Tokyo last week, Masuda was very blunt about what many in Japan consider the marquee event of the Athens Games -- the women's marathon.
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