The lost potential and ill-disposed tradition

[yumekutteikt]

As many of sumo fans worldwide, I'm still trying to recover from the abrupt retirement of Asashoryu, the grand champion who won the championship in January tournament just two weeks ago. While the media kept blaming his own wrongdoing and relating to the standpoint of his lacking hinkaku(dignity) as a top-ranker of Japanese national sport in his

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I feel like you

[ext_70423]

There was a very interesting discussion about this in the English language Sumo list[1]. Personally, I wish there could have been a better way to help Asa when he started having his troubles. He had the potential to win 40 or 50 Yusho.

[1] See http://www.webtrek.com/sumo/