Re: Path to Olympic Sports just got harder - Not exactly.

[Masumi Abe <abe@accesscom.com>]

The result of the second annual women's sumo championship in Japan.
http://www.licens.com/amasumo/shin/1998/shin97mnj.html

Sorry, it's all in Japanese.

Also, there is a story about an American college student who is the first
foriegn female wrestler in Japan in the same site, written in English.
http://www.licens.com/amasumo/story/97051/970512e.html

-Toshiyori Masumiriki

Pardoe, Richard (prdr) wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Women's sumo already exists (on the amateur level).  It is called
> Shin-sumo (or new sumo).  It was started exactly for the reasons listed
> - in order to have amateur sumo be recognized as a an Olympic sport, a
> women's division was started.
>
> While shin sumo is new, it has been around for almost a year.  For
> example, the following article dates from March 8, 1997:
>
> http://www.africanews.com/monitor/freeissues/08mar97/sports.html#anchor2
>
> (The article does have minor errors (for example,  throwing chalk
> (instead of salt) before a match.
>
> I also seem to remember that Sumo World (?) had an article on shin-sumo,
> but I don't have the issues in front of me to check.  Do others have
> information to help?
>
> Richard (Pardoe)
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Richard Webb[SMTP:rlwebb@puc.edu]
> > Sent:         Monday, February 02, 1998 8:40 AM
> > To:   sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
> > Subject:      Path to Olympic Sports just got harder
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > There is an article on ESPN today noting that Juan Antonio Samarach
> > (the
> > man with the strangle-hold on the International Olympic Committee for
> > as
> > long as I can remember) has announced that any new Olympic sport must
> > have
> > a women's event.  The article points out that if Sumo is to become an
> > Olympic sport, it must include women's Sumo which, I am afraid, would
> > be
> > more of a sideshow initially (as it is in that famous traveling freak
> > show--you know the one with the guy who fits through a tennis racket).
> >
> > To read the article, point your browser at
> > http://ESPN.SportsZone.com/olympics98/news/980201/00560159.html
> >
> > Richard Webb
> > rlwebb@raiderfans.com         http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Richard_Webb/
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