Pics from LA Jungyo

[Asashosakari]

(Reposted from yesterday because I'm an idiot and forgot there's a separate pictures thread...)

Courtesy of ESPN:

A couple more including Taikai doing his interview thing, found here:

[Kintamayama]

[Kintamayama]

Asa and Cup:

Asa beating Asa by tsuridashi on day 1:

Edited June 9, 2008 by Kintamayama

[Dagvaa]

Asashoryu donated 3000$ to Mongolian classroom and said "As we know -Motherlanguage is the culture that must not be forgetten. Far away from homeland, you are doing great job of teaching the youngsters who born and grown up here our culture, language and our history and wish you the best to flourish your rightious work"

Сумогийн Их аварга Д.Дагвадорж

[hidenohana]

Courtesy of Gerard Burkhart AFP.

More:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.a...u&src=quick

(In a state of confusion...)

[ilovesumo]

(In a state of confusion...)

could be an accident, but that pic looks really stylish (In a state of confusion...)

[Takanorappa]

I've uploaded just a few of my photos :-( from the not-so-cheap seats. I didn't do much weeding out, nor any photoshop cleanup, but some came out okay.

[Fay]

Thanks a lot, quite a few :-(

[Coo-cook]

Some fantastic action shots by a Mongolian sumo fan (Mr. Narantsogt) in LA.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Naranzogt/Gran...442389103746562