[sumo] [spoiler]Musouyama

[moti <sumo@dichne.com>]

Musouyama is doing his best to be ready for Kyushu. He knows it's all up 
to him now, being kadoban for the third time in a short while. Left 
elbow injury. He entered the jungyo matches from the 11th, and did 
general keiko from the sixteenth. He has been diagnosed with a one 
centimeter crack in his shoulder bone and has it all taped up during 
keiko. He's been doing ten bouts a day, and is able to push and hold a 
mawashi. "I've been coming along quite well, but some pain is still 
there. What worries and frightens me more than the pain, is what will 
happen when I make a sudden movement in response to an attack, " he 
said. Coming from Musouyama, who usually "hides" his injuries, this kind 
of talk is surprising. "The truth is, it's best to be completely cured 
before I step back in to the dohyo, but time is running out. I have no 
choice but to " juggle " my way through", he said. Being over thirty, 
his injuries are taking slower to heal. He was nicknamed "The Monster of 
Heisei" and was quick to climb the ranks. Now, it's been ten years since 
he entered Makuuchi, about the time when spirit and body start getting 
eroded in the Sumo world- the ten year veteran is surely approaching his 
turning point.
--
Kintamayama Mochiron

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