[sumo] News on Tokitsukaze beya

[Barbara]

Achim Pawelczyk wrote:
> 26th: started butsukari-geiko shortly after 11 in the morning, 11:40 he 
> began feeling bad. The others let him rest, but at 0:40 p.m. he began to 
> breathe heavy and an ambulance was called. Brought to a hospital he was 
> pronounced dead at 2:10 p.m.

It's just a guess on my part, but it sounds a bit like pulmonary 
embolism. That can happen if a large blood clot forms in a vein, such as 
the legs, then breaks free and travels to the lungs.  Repeated injuries 
might cause deep vein ruptures and/or thrombosis.  See 
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch046/ch046a.html
I would think that an autopsy could confirm it so that there would be no 
doubt.  I am not a doctor.
Barbara Murasakihana