SUMO – can weigh 150 pounds and being abused before becoming a champion… We knew the initiation rites of business schools, military and even the France team football. Those academies sumo were much less known, until the champion Hakuho of Mongolia lifts the veil on these taboo practices. Hazing of XXL where everyone sends heavy.

One of the greatest wrestlers since its arrival in Japan at the age of 15.

His revelations come as an old master is on trial for the death of his apprentice under the blows. Some sessions could last up beating 45 minutes. Carefully.

One of only two yokozuna (the highest degree of discipline), with his compatriot Asashoryu. It reflects nearly two years after the death of Takashi Saito, beaten to death by blows to his master cylinder and three sumo wrestlers older armed with bats baseball.

These scandals, combined with those on cannabis and the wrestlers on suspicion of match fixing, have tarnished the image of the sport, as to cause a sudden crisis of vocation. A volunteer to swallow five chickens per day and get beat before training

A coffee or tea, small cakes, all in a welcoming place. Home Family Cancer Association has just moved to Saint-Maur. Created since October, it is supported financially by the Fund’s primary health insurance (CPAM) and part of the Eastern Oncology network, which aims to support patients with malignant disease in the eastern Paris.

Next to the RER station Saint-Maur Creteil and many bus stops, it is for all Val-de-Marne. Its particularity is to provide a welcoming and listening to cancer patients and their families and caregivers outside the hospital..

The only difference is that people come and go whenever they want, there is no constraint. All topics are The meetings are held every Thursday from 14 am to 16 pm 15 and 30 *. A group of seven to eight people, men and women, regularly comes to local. He is also scheduled for the days of speech with other caregivers in town.

Here we talk about everything: the difficulty of treatment, the feeling of discouragement, anxiety of death… ‘Michele insists Guiod-Joret, a former patient, also led to the association.

Tel. 01.43.97.38.59. And accueil-familles-cancer/orange.fr. Closes July 10 to August 10.