Posted on 10/20/2010 7:10:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For years, promoters of sumo have been pushing for the sport’s inclusion in the Olympic Games. To get there, the International Sumo Federation has thrown its weight behind a form of the game that would offend purists and surprise most everyone else: women’s sumo.
When the International Olympic Committee declared in 1994 that single-sex sports could no longer qualify as candidates for the Games, that was enough to turn tradition that featured giant men with topknots shoving each other in a ring on its head. Since then, sumo has been coming into its own internationally as an equal opportunity sport.
Such a radical change to Japan’s ancient national sport did not come easy, and the initial push came from outside the country. Among those who lobbied the I.F.S., as the sumo federation is commonly known, was Stephen Gadd, the general secretary of the European Sumo Union and president of the Netherlands Sumo Federation.
One, it’s stupid that the IOC won’t let Sumo in because it was a single-sex sport and two, are there enough countries to field Sumo teams anyway? — GP
The men’s sumo wrestlers don’t wear that black unitard thing under their diaper. Women shouldn’t either.
You mean the blond in the top photo isn’t Megababe Meghan?
just-ewww.
but baseball can’t be an olympic sport??
You’re definitely on to something.
It’s about time!!
NASTY!!!
Yea! What’s up with that?
Eewww....
Nothing new. You can see this on The View with Rosie and Whoppee everyday.
DO NOT WANT
I think the blond in the middle picture is kinda HOT!!!
Women’s Sumo - where every win is a Pyrrhic victory!
We need to add some mud here.
Hippo Mud Wrestling?
My brother and I once saw a hefty cellulite-gifted woman wearing spandex. He had one comment: “Damned Walnut Smugglers.”
Finally, a sport where fat chicks can excell.
“I think the blond in the middle picture is kinda HOT!!!”
Why, because she is sweating?
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