In 1971, when the great Taiho retired from the sport of sumo with 32 Emperor’s Cups to his name, Hakuho was not yet born.
Sumo was, with but a few exceptions, a Japanese-only sport, and nobody could have possibly predicted a skinny teen from Mongolia would one day join, and top, even Taiho’s records in Japan’s quasi-national sport.
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