Overcoming odds and winning is always special. There is more value to it if you are underrated and regarded as a massive underdog.?
The emotions ran high when sumo wrestler - Tokushoryu - the lowest ranked competitor at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament - won the competition.?
After the win, he?burst into tears after beating his opponent in a rare public display of emotion.?He ended the 15-day contest on Sunday with 14 wins and one defeat.?His victory means Tokushoryu is the first bottom-ranked sumo wrestler to win a top-division title since March 2000.?
The wrestler - who weighs 188kg and is 5ft9ins tall - beat his opponent Takakeisho out of the dohyo ring at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan stadium. The victory is even more remarkable considering he beat a champion wrestler.?
He was visibly emotional after the win.?"I might have cried too much, but at that moment I felt relieved from all the pressure," news agency Kyodo quoted the 33-year-old as saying in a post-win interview.
"Deep down I'm feeling like: 'Is it ok for me to win the championship?' I was the lowest-ranking fighter, so I had nothing to fear. I just had to give it everything I had."
He was visibly emotional after the win.?"I might have cried too much, but at that moment I felt relieved from all the pressure," news agency Kyodo quoted the 33-year-old as saying in a post-win interview.
"Deep down I'm feeling like: 'Is it ok for me to win the championship?' I was the lowest-ranking fighter, so I had nothing to fear. I just had to give it everything I had."
After seizing the tournament's lead on Saturday, he said he had recited the sumo mantra to himself: "I'm not focused on the championship."
What a brilliant tale.?