🇯🇵🙏 Thank You 🇯🇵🙏 Our heartfelt thanks to the sumo wrestlers, the Japan Sumo Association, the organisers, and everyone who joined us over five incredible days at the Royal Albert Hall for the Grand Sumo Tournament 2025. At the end of a sumo tournament (basho), after the final match and award ceremonies, the winning wrestler (the yūshō champion) performs a bowing ritual towards the four sides of the dohyō (sumo ring). This act is called shikiri rei (仕切り礼) or more specifically referred to as

Stars of last week’s Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall have been spotted all over the city. Akira Takayasu, who competed in South Kensington in the second Grand Sumo Tournament to leave Japan in 1,500 years, got stuck in at City stalwart Mizuho Financial Group trying his hand at finance. The 35-year-old, famed for his pushing and thrusting techniques in the dohyō, sat at a six-screen set-up at Japanese firm Mizuho’s 30 Old Bailey London headquarters ahead of the second night of Gran

The sumo wrestling ring, or dohyō, is built fresh before every official tournament using special clay and sand. Craftsmen called dohyō-shi spend hours shaping the 4.55-meter circle by hand, packing and smoothing layers of clay to ensure a perfectly level surface. The boundaries are marked with rice-straw bales, buried halfway into the clay, symbolizing both the ring’s limits and its sacred nature. Once completed, a Shinto priest purifies the arena with offerings and rituals — transforming the do

Yasiel Puig out here training with sumo wrestlers in the offseason. 😂💪 (🎥: Yasiel Puig) | theScore

From the court to the dohyō 🏀➡️🏯 Rui’s summer training with sumo wrestlers has our panel talking about how that strength could translate to the Lakers’ season. | Spectrum SportsNet

In Japan, sumo is more than a sport - it’s a 1,500-year-old tradition, steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But a long-standing taboo remains at its heart, with women still barred from the ring, or dohyō. While professional sumo is closed to women, a small but growing group of female wrestlers are challenging taboos and traditional gender roles to train in the sport.🤼 | ABC Asia