Join the Miguel Delaney team: Inside Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter to get exclusive access and unparalleled insight. Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter Football A Ukrainian, who fled his home country after Russia’s invasion, has won the elite level sumo championship of Japan. Danilo Yavhushyshyn defeated Mongolian-born Hoshoryu in the final match of the Kyushu Tournament in western Japan. Yavhushyshyn, when asked whether he was satisfied with his victory, said: “No. I think this is only the beginning.”Last month, he said to reporters that he wanted people from Ukraine to be able. “able to see my sumo and have some kind of encouragement from that.” “Sumo is quite popular in Ukraine, however, it’s quite rare for someone to be doing only sumo,” he said. “They’ll often be doing wrestling and sumo, or judo and sumo.”Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty Images) / Japan OUT (JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images) Yavhushyshyn said he came to Japan in 2022 after striking up a friendship with a Japanese wrestler at a tournament in 2019. Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP / Getty Images / Japan OUT. Yavhushyshyn says he moved to Japan in 2022, after forming a friendship with a Japanese wrestling player at a tournament that took place in 2019. Yavhushyshyn said he came to Japan in 2022 after forming a friendship with a Japanese wrestler at a tournament in 2019.“It is the place where I was born, where I was raised,” he said. “It is my homeland and there are many people I know there. So if there were a chance I would like to be able to go and visit Ukraine.”Non-Japanese Sumo wrestlers were successful in Japan at various times. Mongolians, Hawaiians, and now Ukrainians are among them. Ukraine has a strong tradition of Olympic wrestling. Zhan Beleniuk won the last gold in the Greco Roman division at the Tokyo Games. The Games were delayed to 2021 because of the pandemic.Sumo wrestlers are a traditional Japanese full-contact sport that involves…
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