With five days remaining in our basho we’ve got a pretty good read on the runners and riders and know who has a shot of winning the first Emperor’s Cup of the year. And it’s a surprising cadre of rikishi at the top of the leaderboard, with the maegashira ranks leading the way. There are a couple of elite guys who could, theoretically, catch up, though.
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