Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke

[osumo3@native.usc.edu (Luigi Manna)]

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|From: grimbergen@NICI.KUN.NL (Reijer Grimbergen)
|Subject: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke
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|It seems that there are more people asking questions than giving answers on
|this list, but after checking the hatsu basho banzuke (thanks, David) I
|still have some things I am hoping to get an answer to, so here it goes:
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|1) Why is Takanohana still Ozeki? Is make-koshi not enough to get demoted
|if you are an Ozeki?
|2) Is Wakanohana on the brink of promotion to Yokozuna? He seems to have
|been a competitor all through 1993 (although I can't remember his September
|result from the top of my head).
|3) Can Musashimaru become ozeki with a double figure record?
|4) Why did Mitoizumi keep his rank of maegirisha 11?
|5) What is the record for consecutive yusho? Modern times that is (six
|basho a year). I don't think Akebono is close, but I was just curious.
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|Still, it seems that the Sumo Council had an exceptionally difficult time
|making the banzuke for this basho. I think most of the non sanyaku rikishi
|in the top division are of about the same strength. Where is the young
|talent to push the (agreed, hardly oldtimers) Akebono and *hana brothers?
|
|Reijer
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