Ritual, Rice & Reinforced toilets: Sumo comes to London
You might have spotted the world’s best sumo wrestlers riding around on Lime bikes and posing for pictures on Abbey Road - that's because for the first time in 34 years, the thunderous spectacle of Grand Sumo is back in London.
At the Royal Albert Hall, toilets and seats have been reinforced to take 200kg, spectators in the front row have been warned they could be crushed, and they’re getting through 70kg of rice per day!
As other sports are determined to ‘go global’ in this age of commercialisation and constant reinvention, sumo has remained remarkably unchanged: a sport rooted in…
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