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Last night, I watched North American sumo
championship tournament on ESPN2. First time I've had a chance to do
so. It was fun to hear some commentary in English (not all of it seemed
accurate to me, but, hey! the announcers were seemed genuine in their desire to
get fans of other sports interested in sumo). I was wondering about one
comment made, however. It was said; "Modern sumo is unlike sumo from
hundreds of years ago, where they fought til death." This is not an
exact quote, but pretty close. Is this so? The books that I have do
not refer to this. I thought the raising of the arms was to signify
"no weapons up my sleeve"! so I guess my assumtion was that
meant it was not a battle-to-the-end type of thing.
-Gerrie
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