London, Oct. 18 -- The Grand Sumo Tournament - a five-day event being held at the Royal Albert Hall - features 40 of the very best sumo wrestlers showcasing a sport which can date its first mention back to 23BC.
London's Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japanese temple roof suspended above the ring.
It is here the wrestlers, known as rikishi, will perform their leg stomps to drive away evil spirits, and where they will clap to get the attention of the gods in a small clay ring which has virtually remained unchanged in hundreds of years, reports BBCAnd above all this ancient ceremony, a giant, revolving LED screen which wouldn't look out of place at an American basketball game, offering the audi...