I could not let September pass without saluting the performance of the great Mongolian sumo wrestler, Hakuho. Hakuho won the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan, his 41st championship, which included his 1000th win in the top division. He is streets ahead of all of his nearest rivals, past and present. Even with an injury, he finished 15-0 in this honbasho.

To put this in perspective, if sumo were a world sport like football or tennis, he would be as famous and as lauded as any Federer, Williams, Pele or Ronaldo. He is well known in Japan and Mongolia and amongst the growing number of foreign sumo fans but less so elsewhere.

This shot is from his final day victory against fellow yokozuna Kakuryu, himself a highly accomplished rikishi.