“There’s no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on, and you've just gotta keep on keeping on.” The words of Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit capture the folly of thinking the past can be left behind.
The calendar may have turned over for sumo, but 2022 is already starting to look a lot like 2021 redux.
Just four days into January, news emerged of the first COVID-19 infections in sumo this year — something that was immediately followed by the now common step of standing down the entire stable where those positive tests took place.