<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">A very intelligent, thoughtful and deliberate interview .<div><br></div><div>From Moti:</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Moti Dichne <niramiai@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> September 27, 2021 at 4:07:47 AM EDT<br><b>To:</b> Sumo Newsletter2 <sumo-newsletter2@googlegroups.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Sumo news] - Terunofuji after yusho next day interview</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> niramiai@gmail.com<br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>Terunofuji next-day interview:</p><p>Q: It's been a day since your yusho. How are you feeling?</p><p>A: I am relieved.</p><p>Q: Is this yusho as a shin-Yokozuna different from your other yushos?</p><p>A: No, nothing is different.</p><p>Q: Before the basho, you were talking about a Yokozuna's responsibility.</p><p>A: I feel that as someone at the very top of the rankings, I need to have a sense of responsibility.</p><p>Q: These fifteen days, your calm sumo was very conspicuous.</p><p>A: It really doesn't help to think too much. I was thinking that I have to bring what i did in training to the basho itself.</p><p>Q: You suffered two losses in the second half of the basho. How did you manage to change your feelings?</p><p>A: What happens on a certain day happens on a certain day and it's over. I just faced the next day as a new day.</p><p>Q: Were you able to act accordingly to the words you used in your Yokozuna promotion ceremony "steadfastness"?</p><p>A: Not only during the fifteen days, but even now I'm acting according to it, and I want to continue realizing it in the future.</p><p>Q: You followed Kisenosato' shin-Yokozuna yusho back in March 2017 with your own shin-Yokozuna yusho this basho. You were involved in the yusho race back then as well. Was this a continuation of that experience?</p><p>A: No, it was totally different from that basho. There is nothing to continue from back then. I was just concentrating on doing what I had to do this basho.</p><p>Q: What do you expect from the next basho, your second basho as a Yokozuna?</p><p>A: I will face it seriously one day at a time and gambarize so that I can show a good result again.</p><p>Q: Will you be treating your knees now?</p><p>A: I will be consulting with my doctors on what to do.</p><p>Q: When did you get used to doing the Yokozuna dohyo-iri?</p><p>A: I'm still not happy with it. I'm not sure I'll ever be happy with it..</p><p>Q: I've heard doing the dohyo-iri is like having two bouts, burden-wise..</p><p>A: During the dohyo iri I have everyone's full attention so I was able to do it with a positive sense of anxiety..</p><p>Q: Hakuhou intends to retire..</p><p>A: I still haven't seen anything about it..</p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>