Video footage posted online shows the unnamed women trying to help the collapsed town mayor before being told to leaveThe two women leapt to the aid of a collapsed man on the floor and began pumping his chest, both evidently medically trained. Then a voice came over the loudspeakers ordering them away — not because their skills were not needed, but because they were women. The sport of sumo wrestling was again shown in a bad light over the incident on Wednesday when a town mayor collapsed while giving a speech in the sumo ring. The two trying to save his life had to leave because of an ancient sumo tradition that bars “impure” women from polluting the sanctity of the arena. Thanks in part to their swift actions, Ryozo Tatami, the mayor of Maizuru, in Kyoto prefecture, survived and is recovering in hospital…

Source: The Times April 05, 2018 16:10 UTC