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History was made when Egyptian sumo athlete Abdelrahman Elsefy won gold, and then lost, and then won gold again.<\/p>\n
Elsefy eventually went home with the prize at\u00a0the gold-medal sumo match of the men\u2019s lightweight division of the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Elsefy was disqualified for celebrating his win against Ukraine\u2019s Demid Karachenko with a backflip.<\/p>\n
While the crowd cheered for the backflip, the ref and the judges and the ringside announcer, all claimed it was a breach of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n
They explained over the speakers that sumo was about honor (and not backflips) because this was the way it happens in Japan. Ok negative Nelly.<\/p>\n
This time though, he didn\u2019t do a backflip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History was made when Egyptian sumo athlete Abdelrahman Elsefy won gold, and then lost, and then won gold again. Elsefy eventually went home with the prize at\u00a0the gold-medal sumo match of the men\u2019s lightweight division of the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. Elsefy was disqualified for celebrating his win against Ukraine\u2019s Demid Karachenko with … ","protected":false},"author":4089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":55450,"id":55450,"title":"DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4","filename":"DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4.jpg","filesize":1,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4.jpg","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/cairo\/en\/latest\/egyptian-sumo-athlete-wins-gold-in-world-games-2022\/attachment\/dzmjm5h6x5d7lpuaoza7bntnd4\/","alt":"","author":"4089","description":"","caption":"","name":"dzmjm5h6x5d7lpuaoza7bntnd4","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":55449,"date":"2022-07-17 11:16:46","modified":"2022-07-17 11:16:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/cairo\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":786,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4-small.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4-medium.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":184,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4-768x472.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":472,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4-large.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":553,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":786,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":786,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4-230x141.jpg","small-width":120,"small-height":74,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111647\/DZMJM5H6X5D7LPUAOZA7BNTND4.jpg","custom-size-width":326,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","ad_square_right":"","summary":"","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","content":"
History was made when Egyptian sumo athlete Abdelrahman Elsefy won gold, and then lost, and then won gold again.<\/p>\n
Elsefy eventually went home with the prize at\u00a0the gold-medal sumo match of the men\u2019s lightweight division of the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image_block","image":{"ID":55451,"id":55451,"title":"np_file_170440","filename":"np_file_170440.jpeg","filesize":1,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/cairo\/en\/latest\/egyptian-sumo-athlete-wins-gold-in-world-games-2022\/attachment\/np_file_170440\/","alt":"","author":"4089","description":"","caption":"","name":"np_file_170440","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":55449,"date":"2022-07-17 11:18:32","modified":"2022-07-17 11:18:32","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/cairo\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2016,"height":1512,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-small.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-medium.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-768x576.jpeg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-large.jpeg","large-width":900,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-1536x1152.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440.jpeg","2048x2048-width":2016,"2048x2048-height":1512,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440-230x173.jpeg","small-width":120,"small-height":90,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/17111832\/np_file_170440.jpeg","custom-size-width":267,"custom-size-height":200}},"image_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","content":"
Elsefy was disqualified for celebrating his win against Ukraine\u2019s Demid Karachenko with a backflip.<\/p>\n
While the crowd cheered for the backflip, the ref and the judges and the ringside announcer, all claimed it was a breach of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n
They explained over the speakers that sumo was about honor (and not backflips) because this was the way it happens in Japan. Ok negative Nelly.<\/p>\n
This time though, he didn\u2019t do a backflip.<\/p>\n"}],"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_ads":false,"slots_script_override":"","ad_horizontal_top_desktop":"","ad_vertical_left_desktop":"","ad_vertical_right_desktop":"","ad_horizontal_top_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_bottom_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_1":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_2":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_3":"","article_ad_infeed_slot":"","ad_square_podcast":"","disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_sponsor_name":"","legacy_sponsor_website":"","legacy_sponsor_content":"","legacy_sponsor_image":"","legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":true,"guest_user_name":"Lovin' Cairo","guest_user_image":false,"guest_user_url":"","episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"yoast_head":"\n