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I'd be careful. I remember the great 200 meter runner Michael Johnson telling an anecdote about all of the people commenting on why he runs so oddly and why doesn't he try to run with the same ideal form as everybody. He always replied, "Sure, I could train to run with the same form as everybody else, but then I would be running back there with everybody else!" I mean certainly there's always room for improvement. But if he's banging out 14-1 yushos, maybe he doesn't need to have everything perfectly fixed?

Looks like they've called it as a komatasukui.

That felt anticlimactic somehow.

No doubt his foot was turned over on the rice bales. But at that same moment, Mitakeumi was in the air falling backwards and completely out of the Doyo. So... I can see that holding up under review.

Ninth title, right?

I wonder what Takayasu's record would be at this point if the Hiradoumi match had been called the other way. I suspect better than 8-4. Oh well.

If I'm not mistaken, it was also the incident that instigated the review process becoming a part of sumo. Was it the following year?

Yes, I've got the replay frozen on the part where Hiradoumi's foot has completely turned over, sliding along the surface, and Takayasu's foot is still about an inch-and-a-half above on the bails. I know they can't reverse the call at this point. But do they review this stuff later and atleast publicly acknowledge these kind of errors?