Re: [sumo] Sumo World Championships Day Two

[Jeanne Hedge <jhedge@rcn.com>]

h.gilbert@auckland.ac.nz wrote:

Two interesting reports about the world sumo championships, 
which have been snipped for space reasons. Thanks for your 
hard work, Howard!

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>The overall feeling is that Europe is quite strong in 
>ability and results, and Japan will always be strong at 
>this level because of the regular competition, number of 
>athletes and technical ability. The organization of the 
>championships still remains heavily Japanese in many 
>respects, with only certain jobs being outsourced to 
>locals. The decisions and reasoning, as well as the 
>structure are as they would be at a tournament in Japan.


Out of curiousity, given the NSK's stance and "polling 
results" related to women on the doyho, what sort of "feel" 
did you get from the Japanese delegation about women 
participating in sumo in general (especially since they sent 
a women's team to the event).


Jeanne
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