Sumo’s bi-monthly nature may have exempted it from the financial pressures that are hitting other sports hard, but the ongoing pandemic is still having an impact on the sport.
A spectator-less tournament in March was, of course, the most notable enforced change, but there have been others.
One came this week with the release of the banzuke (rankings) for the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament.
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