TOKYO (Reuters) - Akebono, who became famous as sumo's first foreign-born grand champion before retiring last month, has apologised to sumo elders for crashing his motorcycle while on holiday in his birthplace Hawaii.
Akebono sustained only minor injuries in last week's accident, but the ultra-conservative sumo world -- which makes dignity a prerequisite for becoming grand champion -- apparently felt the incident was unseemly.
Tokitsukaze, head of the Japanese Sumo Association and himself a former sumo wrestler, was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying he gave Akebono "a strongly worded warning".
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Akebono sustained only minor injuries in last week's accident, but the ultra-conservative sumo world -- which makes dignity a prerequisite for becoming grand champion -- apparently felt the incident was unseemly.
Tokitsukaze, head of the Japanese Sumo Association and himself a former sumo wrestler, was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying he gave Akebono "a strongly worded warning".
Want to learn more? http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=human&Repository=HUMAN_REP&RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FHuman%2FOUKOE-JAPAN-SUMO_NEW.XML
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One door closed is one door opened
One more memory fades away
Such grand dreams we all have chosen
We lost our innocence along the way
- Rose Bygrave, "Innocence"
PsychoticIckyThing.Com