Sumo wrestlers from Japan started a five-day event at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday.
It marks solely the second time the elite five-day event can be held outdoors Japan. The first was in 1991 on the identical venue.
Organizers of the London occasion say they hope to indicate Japan’s wealthy tradition in addition to its conventional sport that pits two enormous males clad in little or no towards one another in a take a look at of energy and method. All tickets for the five-day occasion have been offered.
Kotoeiho, again to digital camera, lifts Oshoumi throughout their bout at The Grand Sumo Tournament on the Royal Albert Hall in London, on Wednesday. Image: AP/Frank Augstein
Prior to the event, sumo grand champions Onosato and Hoshoryu on Tuesday took a sightseeing stroll round London. They toured Buckingham Palace and walked round close by landmarks corresponding to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, sometimes stopping to take pictures with passersby.
Hoshoryu purchased a scorching canine from a meals stall at Westminster Bridge spanning the River Thames, ranking the snack as “delicious.”
The five-day Grand Sumo Tournament options wrestlers from the game’s elite makuuchi division. Onosato and Hoshoryu carried out conventional ring-entering ceremonies of their function as yokozuna.
The Japan Sumo Association canceled deliberate visits to the British capital in 2009, as a result of worldwide monetary disaster, and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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