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- <text id=91TT1627>
- <title>
- July 22, 1991: Big, Strong And Kind of Cute
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 45
- Big, Strong And Kind of Cute
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- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> He's the size of 2 1/2 Michael J. Foxes. His uniform is
- a silk loincloth. He's Japan's most popular athlete, according
- to a fashion magazine. He's TAKAHANADA, an 18-year-old, 308-lb.
- sumo wrestling sensation, and he has teenage girls and older
- sumo fans in a swoon. The youngest wrestler ever to defeat a
- grand champion (he whipped the legendary Chiyonofuji in May),
- Takahanada is breaking records, selling out tournaments, gracing
- magazine covers--he's heightening pulses as well as interest
- in the sport. He's a sumo cum laude national hero and, when he
- retires, a logical spokesman for Slim-Fast.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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