[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Keri Sibley]

For real!!!! Wow!!! Unprecedented

Hinerikeri


--- murray johnson <murrayj at tkg.att.ne.jp> wrote:

> Asa suspended for 2 basho. Kyokai just announced.
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sumo-bounces at webtrek.com
> [mailto:sumo-bounces at webtrek.com] On Behalf
> Of Philip Sherman
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2007 1:16 PM
> To: Sumo Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer
> 
> 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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