From: Dominic Waugh [mailto:dominic.waugh@RDFMedia.com] Sent: Wed 28/06/2006 15:10 Sturley, Rhonda Subject: British Sumo Federation/Channel 4 documentary

Hi Rhonda,

 

Very nice to speak to you earlier.

As promised, here’s some more information for you about the documentary we are

making…

 

As I said, this year, the British

Sumo Wrestling Federation will be training up the first ever British team of

female Sumo Wrestlers to represent Great Britain at the Women’s Sumo World

Championships in Japan in October.  At the moment, Britain has only one

competitive female sumo wrestler, called Jackie Bates. This year, however, the

British Sumo Federation are keen to find other strong women like her who would

be interested in trying their hand at involved sumo wrestling and help to make

Britain’s first ever all woman sumo wrestling team. The training and the

Championships will be filmed as part of a one hour, one off Channel 4

documentary.  All the training will be conducted by the British Sumo

Wrestling Federation in Derby

 

The link below should take you to a

newspaper article that will give you a bit more information on Jackie and the

sport. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/02/02/sosumo02.xml

 

At the moment we are busy looking to

find big, strong, determined women who might be interested in putting themselves

forward for team selection and wondered if any of your judo contacts might be

interested in it. If you do know of anyone, it would be great if you could get

them to get in touch with us.

 

They can either email me or call me

on: 0207 013 4562.  Alternatively, please do feel free to forward this

email on to them and they can contact me directly.  I will be able to call

them straight back.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks for your time and hopefully

hear from you soon,

 

Kind regards,

 

Dom Waugh

 

Producer

RDF

Media