Kokkai going home +OT Israeli banter..

[Kintamayama 47,193]

Kokkai "Hagruzini" will be leaving for Georgia on the 14th for a week-long homecoming. He has yet to visit his homeland since his Sumo debut. He initially did plan on going after Hatsu Basho, but the internal problems there made him think twice. "I'm just going to relax", he said. He will be staying with his parents in Tibilisi. He wil be coming home proudly as a full-fledged Makuuchi rikishi.

Edited April 12, 2004 by Kintamayama

[Yoavoshimaru 0]

I have to go off-topic a bit to share a curious story with Kintamayama- and Tominishiki-zeki. When I was in 5th-7th grades I had a personal tennis coach and played quite a bit. My tennis coach was also a judge for tournaments in Israel, including one of the big international tournaments held annually, with competitors from all over the globe. This tournament was a week-long thing: he would be there to judge during the day, and we'd have my lesson in the evening. The amusing thing was he never really learned the player names, only their nationalities, so whenever I asked "who won today?" he'd say things like "the romanian beat the hungarian, the russian beat the japanese, and the american beat the canadian" but never names. So most of the time I had no idea who he's talking about, and had to check the papers anyways (at the time I was very into tennis).

The "Hagruzini" word in your post reminded me of this story. No one else probably cares but oh well..

[Kintamayama 47,193]

The amusing thing was he never really learned the player names, only their nationalities, so whenever I asked "who won today?" he'd say things like "the romanian beat the hungarian, the russian beat the japanese, and the american beat the canadian" but never names. So most of the time I had no idea who he's talking about, and had to check the papers anyways (at the time I was very into tennis).

The "Hagruzini" word in your post reminded me of this story.  No one else probably cares but oh well..

Well, that is EXACTLY the point..I took it from Soccer (Football) - the average Israeli spectator never bothers to learn the foreign players' names, so they say "the Rumanian", "the Pole", "the Russian", etc. Even some of the managers do that when they are interviewed in the papers.

Hagruzini means "The Georgian", in case anyone read up to here..

Edited April 12, 2004 by Kintamayama