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Wrestling & Sumo
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Girl Wrestler 
 Companion website to this documentary that "follows a year in the life of Tara Neal, a Texas teenager who rocks the establishment by insisting that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat." Special features cover Title IX, "cutting weight" (rapid weight reduction, popular among amateur wrestlers), and a history of women in wrestling. From Independent Lens. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/girlwrestler/ Topics: Sports, Women Last updated Feb 21, 2008 Grand Sumo Home Page (Nihon Sumo Kyokai)
Web site for official Sumo information including tournament information, news, interviews, records, and real-time streaming video of "the day's top bouts." Also features an informative, nicely illustrated introduction to Sumo. Available in English and Japanese. http://sumo.goo.ne.jp/eng/index.html Topics: Sports Last updated Jan 11, 2004 Sumo East and West
Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary that "offers a rare opportunity to go inside the cloistered and highly secretive world of sumo, where the historical clash between East and West plays out in the story of the Western outsiders who have entered this quintessentially Japanese institution." Features profiles of wrestlers, history, a recipe for chanko (staple dish of sumo wrestlers), annotated links, an interactive guide to the sumo wrestler, and more. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/sumoeastandwest/ Topics: Recipes by Region, Sports Last updated Jul 12, 2004 TheMat.com & USA Wrestling
The official U.S. amateur wrestling site. Includes results, rankings, an events schedule, weight charts, athlete biographies, associations and clubs, links to other amateur wrestling sites (including women's wrestling), Olympic medalists, and more. http://www.themat.com/ Topics: Notable People, Sports, The Olympic Games, The Olympic Games: Competitions Last updated Oct 10, 2004 United States ArmSports
This site is dedicated to providing information about armwrestling including news, organizations, events, rules, and history. ("ArmSports is a relatively new term encompassing the ancient sport known as Armwrestling, Arm Wrestling, Arm-Wrestling, Wristwrestling, Indian wrestling etc.") http://armwrestling.com/ Topics: Sports Last updated Nov 21, 2001 |
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