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There will be a lot of eye-rolling for sure. Possibly even more than that - have a look at how Channel 4 covered it today: https://www.channel4.com/news/sumo-returns-to-london-after-more-than-thirty-years I'll try to get involved in the BBC online coverage next year (I'm the co-author of this article), to at least stir it away from factual mistakes and the usual clichés. But generally media coverage will be jokes about rikishi's diet and all that

Adding to that WOOOOW!!, Asashosakari becomes the first ever player in sumo gaming history to win 10 yushos in any one of the Superbanzuke games.

Try to imagine how difficult selling the event to the general public would be by getting all those facts right: "All the top ranked sumos will be coming, but they are actually called rikishi, and it's just for show and no real competition. The best of them all are called Yokozuna, but there's currently only one of them who will probably retire by October. And these two posing for pictures are real rikishi, but ranked too low to actually appear on stage."

The Royal Albert Hall are well aware that their claims that this (and 1991) are 'official' basho, and that they are the only two sumo events held outside Japan are incorrect. I've told their staff and the people responsible for the event the same thing directly on numerous occasions. They simply do not care and are happy to continue perpetuating those (easily fact checkable) falsehoods, even including them in materials distributed to the media this week.

We are all going to be doing a lot of eye-rolling when the UK media covers sumo. "Rishiki" will be the least of our problems. But every sumo fan has to start somewhere: ten years ago I was regularly talking about "sanjaku" and "komosube"... and I thought that promotion and relegation worked like it does in football. Oh, and another one... for some reason I thought that wrestlers should be disqualified if their sagari fell off.

I believe it's at 7:30pm Wednesday to Saturday. 2pm on the last day.

Unless postoperative recovery processes of newly reconstructed ACLs have somehow changed in recent years 6 months should be the time needed for the reconstructed ACL to be strong so in Asanoyama's case that would be around the end of January. Quite logical he intends to return in Haru basho. Flexibility seems quite good already. There are examples of athletes in risky sports having reinjury reasonably soon (perhaps the most prominent example was original Ronaldo) but plenty of athlete whose knee never was a problem after surgery. In sumo there can be tremendous pressure on ACL in defensive situations as both the victim and attacker can generate massive power. I am sure reconstructed ACL would be timid and stressed out on the dohyo if it had a mind of his own. Female athletes often get new ACL injury because it is dangerous to be a woman's ACL much the same way it is dangerous to be woman's liver when primary biliary cholagitis is searching for another new liver to reside at. ACL injury risk and PBC are some of the many dangerous aspects of being a woman.

None of this sounds like swindling to me. It's much more like a combination of lack of knowledge/understanding and insufficient attention to detail.

NikkanSP premium regularly posts on Asanoyama, report from Kyushu this time, he talked to NSp reporters on day 7 - details about his rehab training o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

NSK info https://sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=672 official page https://service.orikomi.co.jp/en/sumo-london o more from the papers oo o o oo o o o o o o o 1991 o

I was prompted by YBF's comment on how rare Komusubi Yusho were to search up all of them. It turns out that in the 6-basho era, every single Komusubi Yusho winner had it as their either 1st or 2nd basho in an Ozeki run. Just before the 6-basho era, in 1957, there was one failure, Annenyama (later known as Haguroyama). If you remove all the date restrictions there was another failure in 1932, but he might have made it eventually if he hadn't passed away a couple basho later (Okitsuumi). There were only two other Komusubi Yusho, so the pre-6-basho era had 2 failures and 2 successes, not much of a pattern compared to the 6-basho era ones. Also of note is that Musashiyama was promoted to Ozeki directly from Komusubi after the next tournament, and that wasn't even the last time that happened with the more recent one being even more ludicrous by today's standards with only 1 sanyaku basho, so clearly the rules were different when there were less basho per year.

He's about the same size and weight of Harumafuji. And like Harumafuji he's not one to overpower others with brute mass and force.

This needed a huge amount of fact checking and corrections but hopefully the end result isn't too bad! Sumo Grand Tournament back in London after 34 years - BBC News It took quite a while to help journalists understand the difference between given name, shikona, elder stock name, rank, JSA title etc.!

Asahisho gets his story with 2nd (3rd) career reported by NikkanSP premium. He runs a karaoke bar for a month, 宝泉 Housen in Ginza https://www.instagram.com/kota03210721/reel/DAqLDSOvzcq/ and plans to expand his business in January career pics o o o o o o o o o o now oo o o o

Soo... Where's that meme of Takayasu digging for yusho while the others looking on?