Where's the Investigation?
In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged Wednesday as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing yet repulsive triumph.Chestnut, the great red, white and blue hope in the annual Fourth of July competition, broke his own world record by inhaling 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes -- a staggering one every 10.9 seconds before a screaming crowd in Coney Island.
"If I needed to eat another one right now, I could," the 23-year-old Californian said after receiving the mustard yellow belt emblematic of hot dog eating supremacy.
Kobayashi, the Japanese eating machine, recently had a wisdom tooth extracted and received chiropractic treatment due to a sore jaw. But the winner of every Nathan's hot dog competition from 2001 to 2006 showed no ill effects as he stayed with Chestnut frank-for-frank until the very end of the 12-minute competition.
Kobayashi finished with 63 HDBs -- hot dogs and buns eaten -- in his best performance ever. His previous high in the annual competition was 53½. The all-time record before Wednesday's remarkable contest was Chestnut's 59½, set just last month.
That got me thinking about past results and world record holders in this, uh, sport. Just note that 15 years ago, the world record was 21.5 HBDs. As of today, the world record is 66. Think about that for a second; mathematically that would be like Roger Maris' home run record being eclipsed and held today by somebody who hit 187 home runs in one year.
So why are there no calls for congressional investigations into the training habits of competitive eaters?
posted by Brian Griffiths at 1:54 PM
3 Comments:
Have you ever thought it might be evolution at work? If I eat two hot dogs I am ready to burst, just think of the trouble they are going to have down the road with their stretched out stomachs (insides). It cannot be good for their system. How many pounds of meat is that anyway? Of course they won’t need to be embalmed when they die either from all those hotdog preservatives coursing through their veins.
Its training and legal supplements. There is nothing untoward going on in the world of competitive eating.
Bill O' Reilly interviewed a previous winner, and long time contestant, the other night. According to this fellow, he expected to gain 20 pounds from the contest initially. He then said after digestion he would end up about 5 pounds heavier.
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