<div dir="auto">I’m wondering myself. It seems that before every basho he is tossing people around on the doyho and looking great. Then when the basho comes he’s too injured to enter, or if he does he pulls out injured. I stopped believing in all the pre-basho reports a decade ago. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 7:08 PM Robert Brown <<a href="mailto:brownro214@gmail.com">brownro214@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So, John writes on the 5th that Hakuho is ready to go and shortly afterwards he pulls out.  What's up with that?  Is this the Gunning curse?<div><br></div><div>Kodaiyama</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/11/932afea43528-sumo-yokozuna-hakuho-withdraws-from-november-basho.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/11/932afea43528-sumo-yokozuna-hakuho-withdraws-from-november-basho.html</a><br>
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