[sumo] (sumo)roids rikishi?

["Ross Mihara" <rmihara@hotmail.com>]

Having been a roids user in college, I know first-hand the side effects, and 
I have long suspected Taka, Kaio, and Dejima of being on the juice.  They 
exhibit the classic side effects....Taka, liver trouble....Kaio, pimples 
everywhere on his body....Dejima, gaining 30 kilo in around two months.  
Akebono, in his fighting days, would allude to the other guys having 
in-his-words an "unfair" advantage.  But like everything else in sumo, I 
have no solid evidence to back up my observations.

Having said that, Asashoryu, in my opinion, is natural.  He doesn't have the 
puffy face that most users have (recall Taka as a yokozuna), and has a lean 
body.  Look at Taka now, as an oyakata-- the difference is startling.

As has been mentioned on the SML before, if there is no steroid police in 
sumo, any athlete who is looking for an edge.....

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