Re: Itai on CNN

[Matt Waggoner <matt@waggoner.com>]

Can't, technically, a rikishi only know about his own yaocho as well as the
yaocho of whoever he's yaochoing with?  I mean if it is arranged, then
presumably both parties know it.  Unless the loser loses on purpose and the
winner thinks it was a fair bout, but there would seem to be little point
in doing that.

At 02:14 2/3/00 GMT, you wrote:
>Bottom line, the only person who knows, really knows, whether yaocho was 
>committed or not, is the wrestler who does it, period.
>
>So Itai, the guy who just wants money and popularity, IMHO a dickhead, can 
>'fess up to his own yaocho and that is it.
>
>Fixing the outcome of sporting events is not unique to sumo.  I think this 
>just some sad person's effort to get attention and money.  I pity Itai.  I 
>wonder if his chanko-nabe restaurant is busy now or not cause of this stuff.
>
>
>>From: Stefan Gelow <f95-sge@nada.kth.se>
>>To: sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
>>Subject: Re: Itai on CNN
>>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 02:45:36 +0100
>>
>>
>> >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.
>>
>>So, what you mean is that there is enough other circumstances besides the
>>Itai story, to confirm that he tells the complete truth about the time when
>>he was himself an active rikishi?
>>
>>Stefan Gelow
>>
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