Scandal-tainted champion Asashoryu calls it quits

Scandal-tainted champion Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Hakuho looks down during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2009, after fellow Mongolian yokozuna Asashoryu 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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