[sumo] Man in the street-Views on Jungyo and Asa

[Charles Beauchamp]

--- Moti <sumo1 at dichne.com> wrote:

> Charles Beauchamp wrote:
> 
> > Part of the complete bizarreness of this entire
> > controversy is how many people in this list and
> > elsewhere keep throwing in the word "honor" as
> regards
> > the Yokozuna skipping a tour of essentially
> > pre-determined sumo performances..in order to
> > participate in a charity event in his home
> country.
> 
> Ok, honor may be the wrong word. "That's the way
> Sumo runs" perhaps 
> would be a better way to put it. If you don't run
> with it, you don't run 
> at all. A Yokozuna, certainly Asashouryuu who has
> been 
> "magnifying-glassed" forever, knows better. But
> knowing isn't 
> everything-sometimes you just do what you think is
> right at the moment.
> Doesn't make it right, though.
> I think if he thought he was being screwed, he would
> have quit in a 
> heartbeat.
> Kintamayama

Fair enough.  Personally I don't begrudge the kyokai
authority to punish him.  I do think the punishment is
absurdly harsh.


       
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