Re: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke

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

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|Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 08:22:05 +0000 (GMT)
|From: "Martin Hughes (Bioc)" <mjgh@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk>
|Subject: Re: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke
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|Martin J. G. Hughes
|Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
|Email: mjgh@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk
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|On Mon, 3 Jan 1994, Luigi Manna wrote:
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|> |From: Richard Webb <webb@phys3.physics.wsu.edu>
|> |Subject: Re: Some questions about the Hatsu Basho banzuke
|> |Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 07:25:02 -0800 (PST)
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|> |> |4) Why did Mitoizumi keep his rank of maegirisha 11?
|> |
|> |This I am not sure of.  Not only him, but also the other rikishi
|> |who sat out the entire basho kept the same rank.  I thought they
|> |would drop because sitting out the basho is supposed to be the same
|> |as losing all 15 matches.
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|If Rikishi pull out of a tournament due to injury sustained during
|a basho, as defined by the Sumo
|Association, then they are allowed to retain their rank whilst they
|recover.  I have to say, though, that what the Sumo Association defines
|seems to be pretty arbitary.
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|Anyway, 
|A big Akemashite, Omedeto gozaimasu to all!
|All the best to everyone for '94.
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