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Will he be promoted to Yokozuna if he wins and the next basho?

Looks like a RR for the poor!

Hi Kintamayama, many thanks for presenting the videos. There is one little mistake: Wakatakakage is 7-6 not 6-7.

They need a yokozuna for the Olympics.

What happened to Tochinoshin? He does not look that pink or should I say red as in the last bashos. And he is not breathing that havily.

You are from the USA. You know it all!

Sorry, I have to disagree. Most spirited rikishi on day 13 was Kisenosato!

Goeido on a Yokozuna-run! That is the best joke I ever heard.

Here is the proof. The NSK is setting all matches! You can see the result of every single bout on the NSK homepage about 10 seconds before the fight is seen lve on Sherming22. What a scandal!

What is the job of Kyokutenho and Wakanosato at this Basho? In the video stream they look like bouncers. ;-)

That is actually some kind of word play. It is always the same fish, red seabream, which in Japanese is called "tai" 鯛 Now, if there is something to celebrate - in Japanese this means: "omedetai (koto)"　おめでたいこと (lit. "happy event")　 it is emphasized by holding this fish。 (I can't imagine that they throw it away afterwards, but I haven't had the pleasure to attend such an event so maybe someone in the know can fill in on that part of the question) Sorry, but how did they manage to preserve that fish? Doesn't it smell after so many years of sumo? (Sigh...)

This is a slap in the face for Japanese Sumo.

I think the injury might be a bit higher than the shoulder!! :-P

Japanese people have style! If sumo were a english sport people would booh as always the same man wins. They would say: we are no longer interested, it is boring. (Especially because the winner is a foreigner) They would say: the man is not good, he just has the best mawashi! I am thinking of F1. Japanese people are sportsmen. They don't do something like that.

Is that the Vettel-finger? Does he really want to change his profession? (Holiday feeling...)