The Japan Sumo Association will not appeal a court ruling that forces the body to reinstate wrestler Sokokurai, whom the body had expelled in 2011 over match fixing.
An extraordinary session of the JSA’s board of directors voted unanimously to accept the court ruling, which deemed the sumo body had insufficient evidence to bar Sokokurai, an ethnic Mongolian from China.
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