Re: Itai on CNN

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 23:47 +0100 2/2/00, ShiroiKuma wrote:
> Just sitting here late at work, ready to go home, CNN is on, and lo and
> behold "... and now we go to sumo" says the man.
>
> Sure enough it's from a press conference by Itai, saying that there was no
> other sport in the world in his time, that would include so much fixing. He
> stipulated that 80 percent of matches were fixed.
>
> The whole report really made sumo look bad, think this is really hurting
> sumo's image. It was shocking to see it on CNN.

What's especially sad is that, by the end of the press conference, it was
clear that, while  he was telling the truth about ten years and more ago
(when he himself was a major culprit), he had no solid information about
what was happening today; only his own opinion. (And his opinion, summed up,
was that  there was only one-tenth of the bout-fixing now that there was in
the '80s.)  Someone asked him, "Can you tell by looking at the television if
a particular bout was fixed?" and he replied, "No, not an individual bout;
but over the day you can form an estimate." (My translation)

Ah well, off to work.
Doreen in sumoland

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