Sumo1985

Ireland and Japan added Australia was already on the list list updated with a few nations added

From my limited observations on face book here is a list of nations attending (these are the ones that I can see there will be others attending obviously) Brazil Venezuela Russia Hungary USA Mongolia Great Britain Netherlands Australia Georgia New Zealand Ireland Japan Portugal Estonia Poland Bulgaria Azerbaijan Please feel free to add to the list Confirmed no entries Norway Switzerland

Does the new rival body run by the Eastern Europeans have a website? Also does anyone know why the IFS website is so so outdated?

The Hungarian / Magyar Sumo facebook page is showing lot's of development in Hungary WELL DONE to all concerned. http://www.facebook.com/#!/hungariansumo I wounder if we will have a 2nd Hungarian Pro Rikishi after Atilla Toth if he is still in Japan missed lots of bashos

I have been reading this forum for over a year and I enjoy it very much however, I am fed up of people on this forum continually making comments / posts about how great the Ukrainian event was and how much better the eastern European organisation is. One member of this forum should quit being a writer and become a spin doctor in politics. Just because you have a personal vendetta against the ESU and the event in Hungary, doesn't mean your opinion is correct. You continually use your very good writing skills and excellent vocabulary to put a spin on these opinions making it look to those not in the know, that they are right. In previous posts on the European Championship topic people have said that the Ukrainian event was attended by more nations than the Hungarian one. Factually this is incorrect, either you they are ill informed or have just made it up. As stated in the Video of the Ukraine event there were 12 nations at the event not the 16 repeatedly quoted. I spoke to a polish rakish at the event in Ukraine on Facebook and he confirmed that there were 12 nations represented and that a number of national flags were displayed with no rikishi present from said nation. Was this a deliberate ploy by the Ukrainians to con people that their event was bigger? I was told by the Polish wrestler and a Hungarian again at the event that the 12 nations were Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Armenia, Lithuania, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Moldova and Georgia. Again according to both these wrestler this has been deliberately falsified to give the impression that lot’s of nations backed the competition. The Hungarian Rikishi stated that at the after party he spoke to the sole representatives from Georgia, Turkey and Moldova and found out that they were in fact Ukrainians with parents born in the countries they represented ( this representation was forced on them by the Ukrainian organising committee.) This is clearly a deliberate attempt by the committee / organisers to over inflate the influence and validity of their competition.