[sumo] [Spoiler] Day 2 results and day 3 pairings [INTAI]

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Mongolian sumo wrestler Kyokushuzan retires

Mongolian wrestler Kyokushuzan retired Tuesday from professional sumo 
because of heart disease.

The 33-year-old wrestler has been suffering from heart disease for about a 
year and decided to retire after losing the first match of a tournament that 
kicked off Sunday, Kyokushuzan said in a televised news conference.

"For all of Japanese fans, thank you for supporting me over the past 15 
years," Kyokushuzan said in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, where the 15-day 
Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament is being held.

"First of all, I really want to express my gratitude to my stable master 
Oshima for coming as far as Mongolia 15 years ago and taking me to Japan, 
and bringing me up like this," said Kyokushuzan, whose real name is Daver 
Batobayal.

"After my bout yesterday, my heart felt constricted and I realized that I 
can't go on wrestling," said Kyukushuzan. "This was an important decision 
because I want to live a long life after sumo."

In his sumo career, Kyokushuzan won special prizes for outstanding 
performance, fighting spirit and technique five times.

Kyokushuzan, currently the 10th-ranked maegashira, made his sumo debut along 
with compatriot Kyokutenho at the spring meet in 1992, and was promoted to 
the elite makuuchi division in 1996.

He was promoted to komusubi, the third-highest rank below grand champion, at 
the 1997 spring tourney.

The current yokozuna, or grand champion, Asashoryu is also from Mongolia. 
(AP)

November 13, 2006
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>From: "Nitschke, Alexander" <alexander.nitschke at lpfv.de>
>Reply-To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
>To: <sumo at webtrek.com>
>Subject: [sumo] [Spoiler] Day 2 results and day 3 pairings
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:49:02 +0100
>
>The biggest news today of course is the intai of Kyokushuzan, which came
>rather surprisingly, as the basho just started and he wasn't in
>immediate danger of falling to juryo. The Mongolian pioneer has been in
>makuuchi since Aki 1996 and has been a regular in the joi-jin ranks
>despite being ranked in sanyaku only once as he used to alternate
>kachi-koshi and make-koshi.

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