[sumo] Day 8 videos & torchbearer results [spoiler]

[Joshua Maciel]

On the pre-New Year 'This Year in Sumo' special, Ama was the guest
(along with Kitanofuji, Mainoumi, and Demon Kogure, along with a
couple other folks), and Demon asked Ama why he doesn't Henka, or
something along those lines, as he's a smaller guy, and it's really
not ALWAYS cowardly. Mainoumi chuckles and agrees, and Ama goes on
this shpiel about how he isn't intending to change his style of sumo
since he is more interested in giving the fans a good show of
hard-fought sumo, even if he can't prevail every time.

Or somesuch. This is all paraphrased (as I watched said show several
weeks back). But it certainly doesn't synch up with this being a
Clintonesque dodge of the question. Who knows why he moved as he did
save himself, and he said he was unhappy with it...

- Josh

On 1/15/07, Barbara <barbara at technogirls.org> wrote:

> Demon Kogure asks permission
> to direct a question to Ama, one that the announcers have not dared to
> ask out of politeness. Demon: "Didn't you say last year you would not be
> changing your tactics..." Ama smiles, looks embarrassed, strokes his
> face: "...I was just going to go for the side, and it just turned out to
> be this way..." Right. Demon doesn't believe this story and neither does
> anyone else. But think back. What Ama actually said, was something to
> the effect that he promised to always stick to the kind of sumo that the
> fans wanted. Is it a Clintonesque prevarication, or could one possibly
> honestly say that at that moment, with that one opponent, what the fans
> really really wanted was for someone to humiliate Kotooushu with his own
> recent tactics?