There was a series of cannabis scandals in professional sumo beginning in August 2008. Four sekitori ranked wrestlers, Wakanohō, Rohō, Hakurozan and Wakakirin, were dismissed from professional sumo,[1] and the chairman of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, resigned his post to take the blame.[2][3] It was the first case in which active wrestlers have been dismissed from sumo.[4] After that, the JSA added rules that any retirement package for dismissed members would be reduced or denied, and that those who use illegal drugs would be dismissed without benefits.[5] Many Japanese news and some English news, such as BBC News[3] and The Daily Telegraph,[6][7] reported on the scandal. According to The Japan Times, it was the largest sports scandal of drugs that Japan had ever seen.[8]
There was a series of cannabisscandals in professional sumo beginning in August 2008. Four sekitori ranked wrestlers, Wakanohō, Rohō, Hakurozan and Wakakirin...
prison for nine days after cannabis was found in his luggage at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. The 2008sumocannabisscandal resulted in the expulsion...
(2007), the case of foreign sumo wrestlers possessing and smoking cannabis (2008), the baseball gambling and match-fixing scandal (2010-2011), yokozuna Harumafuji's...
competitions such as the X Games. Beginning in August 2008, a cannabisscandal resulted in four sekitori ranked sumo wrestlers, Wakanohō, Rohō, Hakurozan and Wakakirin...
The following are the events in professional sumo during the year 2008. Hatsu basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 13 January – 27 January Haru basho, Osaka...
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professional sumo wrestler in the wake of the scandal and submitted his letter of resignation to Japan Sumo Association by proxy. The Sumo Association...
sumo due to alleged cannabis use was valid. 21: Footage emerges on YouTube of a wrestler from the Mihogaseki stable driving a car, defying the Sumo Association's...
The following are the events in professional sumo during 2009. Hatsu basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 11 – 25 January Haru basho, Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium...
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