Ahead of the first day of the sumo wrestling on the 10th, a sumo wrestler in the first two stages announced on his Twitter that he was afraid of being infected with the new coronavirus.
Kotonowaka Tetsu in the Sadogatake room updated his Twitter account on the 9th with the 20th piece in the second stage, saying, "I will retire with today. In this corona, It's really scary to go to both countries and take a sumo wrestling, so I told Sadogatake's master that I wanted to take a break, and as a result of contacting the association, it seems that the association said that I was scared of Corona and could not take a break, so I will leave or quit "I have only one option, and my body is important," he said. "I was scared of Corona, but I couldn't choose the option of patience and wrestling, so I decided to retire."