[sumo] More Asa training

[Achim Pawelczyk]

The tabloid Yukan Fuji is quite a contrast to the Daily Yomiuri.
There Asashoryu has fled from facing Hakuho.
Hakuho with 8-2 facing all ozeki, while Asa was 9-1 mainly against the 
youngsters. Both Hakuho and YDC member Uchidate are quoted as having 
looked forward to the meeting of both yokozuna.
NHK news at noon had a neutral report, showing both yokozuna win and
interviewing both. No mention that they didn't meet.

--
Akinomaki

Sumocypher at aol.com schrieb:
>>From the Yomiuri:
>  
> _http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080430TDY28302.htm_ 
>  
>  
> Asashoryu takes charge at yokozuna practice
>  
> James Hardy / Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter 
> If practice means anything, Asashoryu has already won his 23rd Emperor's Cup. 
>  
> The yokozuna dominated nearly everyone he faced at Tuesday's open training  
> session ahead of next month's Summer Grand Sumo Tournament, then said he was  
> operating at half-power.  
> "I'm still 50 percent," Asashoryu told reporters after an impressive outing  
> at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. "My condition isn't that great."  
> Asashoryu is carrying a left calf injury but it didn't show as he beat ozeki  
> Kotooshu, sekiwake Kotoshogiku and rank-and-filers Goeido and Toyonoshima in  
> front of the Yokozuna Deliberation Council and a big Golden Week crowd.  
> The only man to give him any trouble was komusubi Kisenosato, who beat Asa in 
>  their first meeting. The yokozuna made Kisenosato pay for his impudence with 
> a  further three bouts, which the current holder of the Emperor's Cup all 
> won.  

> By contrast, yokozuna Hakuho's bouts were a subdued affair. The younger  
> yokozuna, who was bumped sideways into the less-favored West slot in the  rankings 
> for the May 11-25 tournament, lost twice--to ozeki Kotomitsuki and  
> Kotooshu--in the final 10 bouts of the session.