<div dir="auto">And I am so hoping this comes to pass. I already have tickets to the 2023 Rugby World Cup France slated for September/October. I would love a 3-day sum stopover in London on the way back.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gaijingai</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 9:53 PM <<a href="mailto:sumorina@mac.com">sumorina@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Great news about the possibility of a return engagement at the Royal Albert Hall London. <div><br></div><div>I wonder if the current Rijichio, Hakkaku Oyakata, is keen as he was the one who made the farewell speech from the dohyo at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991 when he was Yokozuna Hokutoumi, saying, “Thank you very much. See you again.”</div><div><br></div><div>He must have practised very hard to perfect this as he was always eager to say it when I visited his heya with foreign guests, farewelling them with a big smile and his special English phrase.</div><div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Dec 2021, at 10:44, Inside Sport: Japan <<a href="mailto:insidesportjapan@gmail.com" target="_blank">insidesportjapan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><span style="color:rgb(15,20,25);font-family:TwitterChirp,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.03)">Still technically in the negotiating stage but it seems (Covid etc permitting) that the Japan Sumo Association will return to the Royal Albert Hall in October 2023.</span></div>_______________________________________________<br>Sumo site list<br><a href="mailto:Sumo@webtrek.com" target="_blank">Sumo@webtrek.com</a><br><a href="http://server.webtrek.com/mailman/listinfo/sumo" target="_blank">http://server.webtrek.com/mailman/listinfo/sumo</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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