Yokozuna Hakuho and his stablemates will miss the entire Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament starting this weekend after two wrestlers at Miyagino stable tested positive for COVID-19, the Japan Sumo Association said Monday.
Nineteen-year-old wrestler Hokuseiho, in the second division of jūryō tested positive on Wednesday before further tests on Sunday found that another lower-division wrestler was positive.
The JSA's communications director, Shibatayama, said wrestlers, including record 45-time winner Hakuho and Ishiura, fighting in the top makuuchi division, are in quarantine at home.