A photo taken of the winner's podium at the 2004 Junior Sumo World Championships has received a lot of attention over the past couple of years.
Two of the four young men standing on the ring in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, that day (Tochinoshin and Goeido) have gone on to become title-winning ozeki, while a third (Kaisei) spent most of the last decade in sumo's top division, reaching its third-highest rank — sekiwake.
Atilla Toth from Hungary has become the odd man out, spending his entire 15-year career to date in the relative anonymity of the sport's lower divisions.
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