Mobiles of sumo giants confiscated prior game

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Sumo giants have been banned from playing golf and to strictly obey traffic laws.

30 June,2011 06:52 pm

As Japan’s ancient sport sumo wrestling gears up sumo giants have been banned from playing golf and to strictly obey traffic laws.Following a serious traffic accident some years ago, wrestlers were banned from driving and they will also have their mobile phones confiscated for the July Nagoya tournament. Convictions in gambling, drug use, gang crime and assault cases have plagued the sports in recent years. Japan Sumo Association says that it is the start so it wants the wrestlers to be braced for it. Accusations of match-fixing are not unheard of in sumo but text messages discovered on mobile phonesMongolian yokozuna will be favorite to win his 19th Emperors Cup in Nagoya.