Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu (C), flanked by his stablemaster Takasago and his wife, expressing gratitude in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2003, after a messenger from the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) conveyed to him the JSA decision to promote him to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement on Feb. 4, 2010, in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage. (Kyodo)

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