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Not confident in my prediction prowess here, but if it happens, I'll give it a go.
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Whew...first time not going home economy class in one of these things. Thanks to all of the refojis for their work.
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This was my Round 1 lineup. Round 3 lineup is: Spain (R) France Switzerland Ghana Croatia Iran Belgium Australia (C) Poland Wales Qatar
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I'll give it another go.
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It's their only chance To get on television; Give them their moment.
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Nothing against Rammstein--I like them. But for a lot of what they've done, Laibach did it first and/or better.
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And not his first knee injury—he blew out a knee in 2012 whilst in Sandamne and missed the next couple of basho.
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Aw, heck, I'll give it another shot.
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Was this what you were looking for?
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Non-K-November basho 2020 Discussion (spoiler space)
Finngall replied to Akinomaki's topic in Honbasho Talk
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Greetings, The premiere of this year’s (US) revival of The Weakest Link featured as one of its contestants a “former amateur sumo wrestler” named Angel with a familiar face...it’s been a few years since he’s been here, but wasn’t that our @Kasutera?
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Indeed, I repeatedly point out to my non-wrestling-fan friends that regardless of what they think of it and in spite of its scripted nature, it's still real people doing some pretty crazy s*** in the ring, some of it highly athletic, for the sake of entertaining a crowd.
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Greetings. I found myself going down a rabbit hole and am looking for help to satisfy my curiosity. Last night I had NHK World on in the background and what happened to be on was Part Two of a feature on "Future Princes of Dance", spotlighting top members of the most recent graduating class of one of Russia's premier ballet academies. One of these was Aaron Osawa-Horowitz (the only Japan connection among the dancers), who eventually was hired by the prestigious Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg. I did a little bit of Google searching on him, which probably wouldn't have lasted very long except that I stumbled upon a site for his mother Chikako Osawa-Horowitz (大澤史來), who is a photojournalist in London. Here she mentions that both her father and uncle were "professional" rikishi, with her uncle being a "Champion" and her father having received the Order of the Sacred Treasure from Emperor Hirohito. As "Champion" could mean as little as a Jonokuchi yusho, that's not necessarily meaningful, but I assume that getting a medal, however minor, means that the father achieved something of note in the sport. But the queries on sumodb don't appear to allow a search on real names, and my Google searches haven't been fruitful. May I enlist the assistance of the community? Thank you very much.
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You better you bet.