SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - The score did not go their way but 'Smile Japan,' as the country's ice hockey team are known, were sporting ear-to-ear grins after a long-awaited Olympic return on Sunday.
The team arrived in Sochi eager to erase the disappointment of losing all five games during the 1998 Nagano Olympics, where they qualified automatically as the host nation.
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