Less than a month after International Women’s Day, sumo found itself embroiled in a gender-discrimination controversy when a female nurse administering CPR was ordered to leave the ring by an official.
The sport’s long-standing ban on women entering the ring has periodically come under fire, but the life-and-death circumstances surrounding the recent incident have given the criticism added intensity this time around.
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