[sumo] More yaocho news

O'Flaherty, Brian brian.o'flaherty at banctec.co.uk
Wed Feb 7 05:29:53 EST 2007


> "Regardless of whether there was any fixing going on or not, what can't be
> denied is that a yokozuna who barely practices still manages to win
> tournaments while barely raising a sweat. The four ozeki who are supposed
to
> beat the yokozuna never looked like doing so," Nakazawa says. "Sumo is
> trying to give across this message that everybody is always practicing
> really hard, but when you look at the results that are coming up, it shows
> you that nothing much is going on at all."

Aha !!  And that is the most telling paragraph yet.  It IS a jealousy thing,
as if that was ever in doubt for me. They resent Asa winning.  That he is
foreign must make it that much tougher to swallow.


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