‘Sports’ Archives
BALUTO ( Baruto ) became Ozeki of SUMO today
There is a SUMO wrestler from Republic of Estonia, and his Sumo Name is Baluto. Maybe this is not right spelling because the Japanese pronunciation is hard in Alphabet. Maybe his sumo name, Baluto ( or Baruto, Balto, Balt..anything like them is OK) comes from the Baltic Sea. Anyway, he bacame OZEKI rank today. Ozeki is the second [...]
Antonio Inoki joins Hall of Fame
There is a very very popular professional wrestler called Antonio Inoki in Japan. Some wrestling fans may know this name because he is known to the world as a man who had a match with Muhammad Ali ( see photo). That was an irregular match between wrestling and boxing. The result was DRAW, so many got disappointed with it at the end. But apart [...]
SUMO is a tribute to God
If you try to remember a Japanese sport, what would it be ? Baseball or football are recently popular but I'm sure some of you remember SUMO wrestling first of all. Probably Sumo is too strange for other countries people. For us Japanese, it's really hard to answer what SUMO really is. When we are born in Japan, Sumo is regularly held 4 [...]
Mao Asada & Daisuke Takahashi got Gold medal at ISU World Figure Skating Championships
In Italy, ISU World Figure Skating Championships was held by 27 of March, 2010. Japanese people are really glad now because both male and female skaters got Gold medals for the first time at a comepetition. Mao Asada won in the female one, and Daisuke Takahashi did it in the male competition. Both of them had very hard life before and after [...]
MAO ASADA made 3 Axel jump twice
MAO ASADA got silver medal at the competition of Figure Skating of Vancouver Olympic. Her way was really long. At the previous Olympic, she could not join in the games because she was too young. But at the time, she was already the top skater at world competition. In that sense, she was not lucky in her career. But she proved the technique [...]
DAISUKE TAKAHASHI got Bronz Medal on Figure Skating Competition
In Vancouver, Japanese players aren't making good results judging from the numbers of medals. But yesterday, Daisuke Takahashi gave us a touching moment when he got bronz medal for the first time ever as a Japanese figure skating player. Japanese female figure skating made some good results in the past Olympic games. Shizuka Arakawa got Gold [...]
Good Luck, Yuko Kawaguchi !
I didn't know a Japanese girl is playing ice skate in Russia as a Pair Skating player. Her name is Yuko Kawaguchi. Yesterday, she and her partner Alexander Victorovich Smirnov (Александр Викторович Смирнов) played skating in Vancouver Olympic. Russia seems to be traditionally strong in this competition with more than [...]
Joji Kato & Keiichiro Nagashima got medales on Speed Skate
On Speed Skate 500 meter competition, Keiichiro Nagashima and Joji Kato got medals today. Nagashima got silver medal and Koto got bronz medal. Japanese speed skate team is always expected medals since Kitazawa got silver medal for the first time in Sarajevo Olympic games. After that, Hiroyasu Shimizu got gold medal in Nagano Olympic, which [...]
AIKO UEMURA missed a medal at Vancouver Olympic
Today Ski Mogul or Free Style Ski competition for women was held at Vancouver Olympic. From Japanese team, I followed a player, AIKO UEMURA. For her, this is the 4th Olympic games and she has never won a medal before. To be honest, her peak time was probably 2008. She got gold medal as annual season winner of world cup games then, and won [...]
ASASHORYU news and Sumo spirit
Recently the Sumo Grand champion, Asashoryu, retired. The biggest reason for his decision was an accident that Asashoryu was involved. News reported he hit a man and the man's nose bone was broken. Asashoryu had a few accidents in the past, and Sumo committee seems to have decided " that's it". There are still many pros and cons, but I [...]
