About Kokkai and a sharp kitchen knife !

["Thierry PERRAN" <thierry.perran@club-internet.fr>]

Hi everybody,

Pretty bad news for Kokkai, freshly promoted to Juryo. Yesterday night (24th
of April), Kokkai cut his left hand with a kitchen knife while cooking. As
his left palm bled a lot, Kokkai went to a hospital to get his left hand
sewed thanks to 3 points.

It will take about 2 weeks for a complete heal, and during this period,
Kokkai won't be able to use his left hand in training session. I guess
nobody can imagine that Kokkai will be kyujo for his first basho as
sekitori, but, in case Kokkai goes, everyone should have in mind that this
guy would compete without almost any training in the last two weeks before
Natsu basho. What a heavy burden for this young gun !!

For japanese readers, here is the link for this unfortunate story :
http://www.nikkansports.com/ns/sports/sumo/f-sp-tp1-030425-0024.html

Best regards,

Thierry