[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Robert Brown]

Maybe the Asa fans can take a breather while the
anti-Asa crowd ceases the bashing of the yokozuna. 
Barbara says he is arrogant and rude, but has she ever
met him?  Scott has and says he a very nice and polite
young man.

The Kyokai is p***ed because Asa didn't show up for
the jungyo and make nice with all the sponsors.  So
why didn't they order him to participate in the
jungyo?  Instead, they ban him for 4 months.  That
means at least two more jungyo without him.  I'm sure
that will thrill the fans.

Kodaiyama


--- John Racine <gaijira at ace.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> Emotions are running high now, aren't they.  Maybe
> the Asa fans should take
> a breather before posting.  Those of us who think
> that his attitude has been
> bad for sumo, aren't so shocked.  We've been
> expecting the Kyokai to do
> something about his behaviour for years now.
> 
>  
> > I woke up this morning to the news, shocked.
> 
> You're very clearly a fan, Scott.  I guess all fans
> of Asashoryu or shocked.
> 
> I'm not a fan, but I was a little shocked that the
> Kyokai was finally
> willing to do something about his bad behaviour. 
> Usually Uchidate or
> someone else from the YDC makes a comment, but
> without any teeth.  
> 
> It's about time someone was willing to do something
> that might actually
> curtail his actions.  I think he'll discover now
> that there are consequences
> for what he does.  Too much of his behaviour was
> ignored, perhaps because he
> was inexperienced.  Everyone assumed he'd grow into
> conducting himself as a
> yokozuna rather than someone who thought he was
> bigger than sumo itself.
> (Maybe those of you who love to pull the Race card
> assumed he was getting
> special treatment because he was a foreigner?)
> 
> I think two bashos and 30% is just about right.  He
> will miss all the money,
> prestige, etc. that life in ozumo gives him for the
> next 4 months.  He has
> learned that he can't do whatever he wants and
> expect no consequences.  It's
> about time.
> 
> 
> 
> > This two basho suspension for Asashoryu has to be
> up there with the most 
> ridiculous decisions ever by a sports governing
> body.  The fact is that 
> in Asashoryu, Japan and the Kyokai have to deal with
> a yokozuna who is 
> revered in his home country of Mongolia, and who is
> an international 
> ambassador of goodwill.
> 
> You've lost me here, Scott.  You make it sound like
> this was a very
> important event.  If it were, couldn't he have asked
> them to attend?  Or
> don't you think the Kyokai would have asked him to
> attend to represent them?
> Ah, but he had already told them he was too injured
> to participate.
> 
> 
> > I watched the 6 minute clip with the sound off,
> since I can't 
> understand the language well...
> 
> I wouldn't comment on it then, if I were you.
> 
> 
> 
> > A two basho suspension for Asashoryu participating
> at a goodwill event?  
> 
> Haha.  If that were the reason, dozens of rikishi
> would be suspended every
> year.
> 
> 
> 
> > This reeks of internal power struggles between
> Asashoryu and the 
> Kyokai.
> 
> I think this part is true.  Asashoryu, like Keri
> said, thinks he's bigger
> than the sport itself, and has been acting that way
> for years.  Finally,
> they punished him to put him back into his place. 
> It's more "public" than
> "internal", but definitely a struggle.
> 
> 
> > I can't disagree more with the notion that
> Asashoryu should be a humble 
> employee.
> 
> You're clearly not Japanese.  He owes his fame and
> fortune to the sumo
> world.  Otherwise he would be a (much poorer, much
> less famous) wrestling
> star in Mongolia right now.
> 
> I think I better take a break now too.
> 
> John Racine
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >  The Kyokai takes away his liberty to act as an
> ambassador of 
> Mongolia, and of today's youth?  Had the Kyokai
> supported this extended 
> role for Asashoryu, who as I stated before single
> handedly rescued sumo 
> from the steroid infected Taka-Waka hype, they would
> have found ways to 
> explain Asashoryu's true injuries instead of flaming
> the xenophobic 
> media outcry.  Lest anyone forget that Asashoryu has
> fought for the 
> better part of a year with injuries that would
> sideline other yokozuna, 
> not to mention the hangnails that force current and
> past ozeki to drop 
> out of tournaments.  This is simply a case of the
> Kyokai humiliating 
> Asashoryu in public and their need to show that
> their mawashi is bigger 
> than his.
> 
> > Is this worse than Wajima's actions as Yokozuna? 
> I think not.  And, 
> what about the investigation into the death of the
> young rikishi earlier 
> this year.  I'm assuming the Kyokai has fined
> Asashoryu and his oyakata 
> so that they can bribe the family not to pursue
> manslaughter charges.  
> Or has the Japanese media conveniently forgotten
> about that incident?
> 
> > A dark, dark day  for sumo indeed.  I'm not
> finished, but I need a break 
> from this regrettable decision.
> 
> > Sukubidubidu
> 
> 
> 
> 
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