[sumo] Fwd: [Sumo news] - More anecdotes..

[Jeff A]

Moti

Best regards,
Jeffrey Anderson
Gaijingai
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these:
It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier


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From: Moti Dichne <niramiai at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Subject: [Sumo news] - More anecdotes..
To: Sumo Newsletter2 <sumo-newsletter2 at googlegroups.com>


Getting nearly crushed but having enough luck to save you is a wonderous
thing. Luck follows those who are lucky enough to have it, all the way to
the end. For a rikishi, the greatest stroke of luck is, of course, winning.
In the Aki Basho of 2016, Ozeki Goueidou (now Takekuma Oyakata) seized this
stroke of luck and won the yusho undefeated for 15 days straight. This
commendable feat excited the whole of Japan. On October 28th, after that
basho, the Aki jungyo was held in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. After
asageiko and chanko, our hero Goueidou was taking a nap, lying face down in
the dressing room. As he was on jungyo, the dressing room was of course
temporary, with a metal locker about two meters high used as a separating
wall.  Suddenly, a young rikishi on the other side bumped into the locker
and it fell over towards Goueidou, who was lying down. This was bad news.
"Oh, look out, it's dangerous!" shouted the people around him, waking him
up.  With his superb reflexes, he quickly shifted his head to the side, and
only his left arm was crushed underneath. Thanks to this, although he
suffered a slight scrape on his arm, it was not serious, and Goueidou once
again demonstrated his strong luck. Looking at the upturned locker kicking
up dust, he said with a sigh of relief, "That was really close. I nearly
died." But had he used up all his luck already? Goueidou's dream of winning
the yusho again at the next Kyushu basho ended in failure, with a record of
9-6.

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