Millwood

It's easy to forget that COVID has a range of effects/damages from none to long term disability.

Along with all the other distortions, many bouts were between rikishi much farther apart in rank than normal - thus advantaging the high ranked and disadvantaging the lower ranked. I hope that sense rather than formula is applied to this mess.

I would hope they are testing everyone every day

That move hooked me on Chiyonofuji. Thanks for the memory.

I am also a bit confused. kinboshi - gold start in Japanese - is what I though was said of defeating a Yokozuna. ginboshi might be read as silver star. But I really don't know what I'm talking about

Any news about Ōnaruto Oyakata (former Dejima) who one of my favorites back then. Akua fell on him.

It's my fault, I entered the Torch contest for the first time and guess who my rikishi is!

But at least ink was not spilled.

Maybe this has already been figured out - do the six bashos include dropping out of Natsu? or are they the next six?

that's what's confusing me. what does it mean to "take up a Sekiwake ... slot" (actually Ozeki first - he's Kadoban). What will the Banzuke look like? In May Hakuho was on the Banzuke but I don't remember when he went kyujo.

Forgive my ignorance. Will Asanoyama actually appear on the Banzuke for each Basho but then never be scheduled for a bout.?

Thank you for the memories. For some reason the image of Dejima blasting across the Dohyo stayed with me for the whole song.

It was clearly time - but he might of stayed a bit longer it there was a rational method for recovery from a serious injury. I think this is starting to really hurt the quality of Sumo.

I've always felt the opposite. To avoid gaming the system, the rules make it difficult for anyone but a Yokozuna to recover from injury because of dramatic loss of rank. I think any Rickshi should be able to skip at least one Basho without serious loss of rank, maybe two or more based on medical evaluation. In the past, the Kyujo system got gamed by Rikshi leaving a basho when they were doing poorly, and the baby got tossed with the bathwater.

Was there ever a Yokozuna who couldn't fight on the belt and wasn't humongous?