Transcript:

It might look comic but becoming a top sumo wrestler is not for the faint-hearted.

The sport, which is over 1,000 years old, requires extreme commitment: with gruelling training and an enormous diet.

But sumo is in decline.

Revenues are falling, audiences are dwindling and the sport, which was once an icon of Japanese pride, is now dominated by foreign wrestlers.

Vocabulary:

comic adj. 喜剧的；滑稽的

faint-hearted adj. 怯懦的；胆怯的

gruelling adj. 折磨人的；繁重累人的；使人精疲力尽的

dwindling 减少

dominated v. 控制，支配