[sumo] Asahimaru Retires

[Jeanne Hedge]

Not my reporting, just my reposting.

Asashosakari complied the info about Asahimaru - here's the link to the original - http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14585

Madorosumaru translates the information with all the quotes from various sources. The link to the one for day 5 is here - http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14593

If you'd like to thank them for their work, I suggest starting at those links :)


Regards,
Jeanne Hedge


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 1:49:34 -0400
>From: <jdouglas at nyc.rr.com>  
>Subject: Re: [sumo] Asahimaru Retires  
>To: jhedge at rcn.com, Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
>
>Thanks for your crisp reporting.  It is refreshing to hear information without the editorial bias.  At least that is how I perceive it.    I greatly appreciate your compilations of quotes, giving a greater picture of how it really is.
>
>I no longer trust the accountings of the established english language  sumo  magazines-  I find Lon Howard sleezy and ingenuous.  Describing the Yokozuna as the one with the black hat made me want to puke.   If I could, I would fling a zabuton in his direction.
>
>Regards,
>
>Huzayomama - go ahead and flame me.  I'm a teflon woman.
>
>
>---- Jeanne Hedge <jhedge at rcn.com> wrote: 
>> Ms44W Asahimaru has retired.  From ASASHOSAKARI:
>> 
>> 28-year-old former All-Japan Amateur champion Asahimaru (Takasago-beya) declared his intai after dropping to 0-3 today, citing deteriorating vision in both eyes as the reason. He had suffered from repeated retina detachment problems going back to 2004, and in order to not endanger his eyesight altogether, has now decided to retire from sumo.
>> 
>> His career began in Haru 2002 as makushita 15 tsukedashi due to his collegiate success and took him up to Ms2w in Hatsu 2003, where he suffered a massive knee injury in a Day 8 juryo visit against Kitazakura which derailed his career for nearly a full year even prior to his eye problems.
>> 
>> A classic case of "what might've been"...  His dampatsu-shiki will be done as part of Takasago-beya's senshuraku party. 
>> 
>> 
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