A little over 24 hours after Shohei Ohtani had arguably the greatest single game ever seen on a baseball diamond, 24-year-old sekiwake Onosato created some sporting history of his own.
With a victory over Hoshoryu, the Ishikawa Prefecture native claimed a second Emperor¡¯s Cup in five top division tournaments and (pending confirmation) became the fastest wrestler in modern sumo to reach the rank of ozeki.
Ohtani and Onosato¡¯s names both begin with the character for great or grand (´ó) but those adjectives barely do justice to what either man has achieved over the past few years.
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