Japanese coach Kosuke Sunagawa is on a mission - to create a Sudanese wrestling team for the Tokyo games. Photo: AFP
While Sudan youths have been wrestling as soon as they can walk, Japan's initiative of coaching them for Tokyo 2020 may not be easy. The Olympic rules are different.
In a crumbling Khartoum sports hall in Sudan, a dozen Nuba men in sweat-faded singlets practise wrestling moves under the critical gaze of their Japanese coach, 23-year old Kosuke Sunagawa.
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