Re: [sumo] While we're on the Taka subject, you MUST see this

[Charles Beauchamp <beauking1@yahoo.com>]

A real wonderment to me is how Takanohana does while
training against his rikishi.

--- Barbara Ann <baklein@attglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> Click on the website. There is a photo of Taka in
> the mawashi. Be very aware
> - this is NOT a pretty sight!
>  
> Reporters crowd in as Takanohana launches sumo
> training session
> 
>
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20050621p2a00m0sp013000c.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> NAGOYA -- Sumo stablemaster Takanohana started
> training wrestlers in his
> stable on Tuesday ahead of the Nagoya Grand Sumo
> Tournament, surrounded by
> dozens of reporters who have been following him over
> his rift with his
> brother, former sumo Yokozuna Wakanohana.
> 
>   <http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/images/space.gif>
>
<http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/image/200506/21/20050621p2a00m0dm012000c.jpg>
> <http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/images/space.gif> 	
> 
> Mainichi Shimbun
> Stablemaster Takanohana, right, instructs one of his
> sumo wrestlers on
> Tuesday. 
> 	
> 
> Wearing the mawashi he sported in his wrestling
> days, Takanohana stepped
> into the training ring to face young wrestlers in
> the stable, ordering them
> to take him on.
> 
> Takanohana has been at odds with his brother since
> the May 30 death of their
> father, former sumo wrestling great Futagoyama, and
> reporters have focused
> on the rift between them.
> 
> About 100 cameramen and reporters turned up at the
> Nagoya training facility
> on Tuesday, but Takanohana refused to answer
> questions related to gossip
> shows.
> 
> "In Nagoya I only want to think about sumo," he
> said. "Before the tournament
> I want to put my effort (into training)." (Mainichi)
> 
>  
> 
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