Sumo wrestlers undergo “random” drug tests
The Japan Sumo Association conducted its first “random drug tests” on wrestlers yesterday:
The tests were held on the same day Yokohama District Court’s Kawasaki branch sentenced former sumo wrestler Wakakirin to 10 months in prison, suspended for three years, for possessing marijuana.
“The tests were carried out in line with the rules and everything was explained properly,” said Asashoryu. “Having today’s test was 100 percent correct. Now we just have to pray that everyone’s results come back negative.”
Mitsubishi Chemical Medience Corp., Japan’s only institution certified by the World Anti-Doping Agency undertook the examinations, the results of which are expected to be disclosed in two or three weeks.
Sumo wrestlers leaving the testing site admitted to the press that they had been told about the tests two days ago. Not all of the sumo stables were tested today, so those going in for tests tomorrow or the day after that will have had even more advanced notice. So much for that whole “random testing” claim.
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i guess “random” loses something in the translation. what a way to make sure everything is aokay!!!
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The term used in Japanese, 抜き打ち尿検査, is “without warning/sudden urine test.”
i really was not being serious as the article mentions that the sumo guys were told ahead of time about the test. i guess i was not clear nor clever.
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I just want to know if the results are still judged in the following way:
Gaijin tests positive = positive, tell the press, throw him out and deport him
Japanese tests positive = “inconclusive”, test him again
Japanese tests positive again = “inconclusive”, test him again
Japanese tests positive a 3rd time = “positive”, but less serious, becasue there were already 2 “inconclusive” results!
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@Level3
well.. thats is a realy good question… realy, it is a very good question… i wish we had more such realy good questions here in Japan.. sure, it is a very good question.. now back to our best Sumos, who are anyway not sportlers..
PS. i wish european standarts in Japan. the armed police storming your house taking you naked out of the bath/beth to tell you that you missed the tests for 10 minutes last week.
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