[sumo] Re: Outstanding performance prize

[Barbara Ann]

Thanks for that, Jim. I knew there was something niggling at me about this
in the back of my alleged mind.

Barbara

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Subject: Re: [sumo] Re: Outstanding performance prize

And then there was the case a few years ago when Takanohana was limping
so badly he could barely get up on the dohyo and he beat Musashimaru for
the yusho. IIRC it was a play off. You never know what will happen until
it happens..Jim

Doreen Simmons wrote:
> Glad you agree with me, Jezz.
>
> Doreen
>
>  
>> To which one might add (in the case of the fusensho win), *if* an
>> injured Futeno had struggled up onto the dohyo on day 15, how much
>> chance would he have had of defeating Kisenosato?
>>
>> My feeling is that no matter what, Kisenosato would have picked up an
>> 8th win, and so the point that it was gained due to being a 'fusensho'
>> is moot.
>>
>> Jejima
>>
>> On 25 Sep 2006 14:55:54 +0900, Doreen Simmons
>> <JZ8D-SMMN at asahi-net.or.jp> scribed:
>>    
>>> Nevertheless he was a bit lucky as he was already a komusubi himself;
the
>>> freebie that gave him kachikoshi was not really part of the luck,
>>> for as Moti observes that's happened before. In any case out of four
>>> previous meetings with Futen'o, he had won three.
>>>
>>>      
>
> Doreen Simmons
> jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp
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