Re: Japan Today: Sumo association looks at ways to reduce injuries

[Barbara Peterson <nocturne_cvs@yahoo.com>]

>>holding a meeting
> of doctors and medical 
> experts familiar with wrestlers' health problems.


I suppose it wouldn't occur to them to let wrestlers
keep their rank 'as is' on the day they are injured
rather than at the end of the basho after they've
'lost' matches that they couldn't fight.  (It'm my
understanding that that's what happens?)

How many wrestlers are hurt a little bit, try to keep
on wrestling because they're scared of demotion, and
then get really hurt?

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