[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Philip Sherman]

Agreed Joe.

PHIL


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Petrow
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:42 PM
To: Sumo Mailing List
Subject: Re: [sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

On 8/1/07, Scott Kahn <smk1 at columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> In the larger scheme of things, I don't see what he did as wrong.  He
> participated in a youth soccer game between Mongolia and Japan as an
> ambassador at the request of his government.  His injuries did not
> preclude him from participating, whereas they are serious enough to keep
> him from the upcoming Jungyo.

I am considered one of the biggest Asashoryu apologists around...but I
cannot think of a single injury that is exacerbated more by simply
traveling on the Jungyo tour and performing dohyo-iris than by diving
to perform a header in a soccer match.

If Asashoryu was too injured to even appear in a jungyo tour, then he
should have been admitted to a hospital in Japan.  There is no valid
excuse for what he has done, and I hope that Asashoryu is suspended
from the Aki tournament to give him time to reflect more deeply on his
conduct.

  - Peterao
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