Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

OSAKA, Japan - People in front of JR Osaka Station read extra editions of a newspaper reporting the retirement of Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu on Feb. 4, 2010. Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage.

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