[sumo] Takasago: Asa can't go home

[Patrick Bal]

Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007


Takasago: Asa can't go home
Kyodo News
Suspension-hit Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu will not be granted
permission to travel to his homeland, his stable elder Takasago said
Thursday. Takasago made clear his stance to reporters after talks lasting
about 90 minutes with Asashoryu, who has been suspended from two grand sumo
tournaments and is suffering from a form of acute stress. Asashoryu was
suspended from the autumn meet in September and the Kyushu meet in November
after it was discovered that he played in a charity soccer match in
Mongolia, despite having cited injuries that allowed him to sit out of a
regional summer tour. He has been confined to his house until the final day
of the autumn meet on Nov. 25 and is not permitted to go out and socialize
as part of the punitive measure

....Chiyonotora