The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament will certainly be relocated from its conventional Osaka location to Tokyo to restrict the mass traveling of wrestlers and also personnel throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Japan Sumo Association statedThursday
The 15-day event, beginning March 14, will certainly be the 5th straight to be held at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan considering that in 2014’s July satisfy was relocated from Nagoya and also November’s tourney was changed from Fukuoka.
March’s grand event proceeded in 2014 in Osaka without viewers, the very first time in the old sporting activity’s background that had actually occurred.
The JSA was intending to hold the upcoming satisfy in Osaka after its personnel and also infection professionals examined Edion Arena Osaka to carry out infection countermeasures.
But when the event is kept in Osaka, the various stables established their bases not just in Osaka however likewise in bordering Hyogo and also Nara prefectures. Each steady would certainly require areas in their short-term accommodations where ill wrestlers can be separated. The central clinical centers established to manage the JSA’s demands have actually up until now enabled events to be held at Ryogoku Kokugikan, however those are tough to duplicate somewhere else.
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Jan 29
The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament will certainly be relocated from its conventional Osaka location to Tokyo to restrict the mass traveling of wrestlers and also personnel throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Japan Sumo Association statedThursday(Kyodo)
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Jan 25
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Jan 23
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Jan 20
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Jan 16
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Jan 13
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Jan 10
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