<div dir="auto">I saw some other commentary on this.  Seems that foreigners are not worthy of honorary elder stock.  When the sumo association instituted honorary elder stock for Taino no one ever imagined that a foreigner would become the winningest rikishi of all time and not only meet their informal criteria of 20 basho wins, but totally smash it.  </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kodaiyama</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 8:36 PM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/04/21/sumo/hakuho-elder-name-report/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/04/21/sumo/hakuho-elder-name-report/</a><br>
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