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Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest (Official Thread)

Joey Chestnut did it again.

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Chestnut tied his own world record, devouring 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes to capture his sixth consecutive Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Wednesday afternoon on Brooklyn's Coney Island.
Chestnut, a 28-year-old from San Jose, Calif., who is better known as "Jaws," also ate 68 hot dogs in 2009. He has won every Mustard Belt since 2007, and took home $10,000 for his efforts Wednesday.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/new-york/story/_...ut-wins-sixth-straight-hot-dog-eating-contest
 
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Joey Chestnut eats 72 hot dogs, wins 10th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title

'The Jaw' dominates in Coney Island, downing 72 hot dogs to set a new world record


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Joey Chestnut wanted 80 hot dogs, but 72 was more than enough to win his 10th Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title. The man know as "Jaws" scarfed two more hot dogs than the 70 he ate last year to beat his own world record.



Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/general/ne...-nathans-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-title/
 
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Joey Chestnut addresses changes to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, plans to break record

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Every Fourth of July, Nathan’s holds its annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. Typically, competitors from around the country (and even the world) gather to see who can test the amount of hot dog the human body can handle in front of a cheering crowd.

This year, however, things are going to be different.

The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held at a private indoor location close to Nathan’s Coney Island location, CBS Sports reports. Unlike previous years, the competition will not be held in front of a live audience either.

This year’s competition will also feature fewer participants, with only five eaters competing as opposed to the regular 15. This change has reportedly been implemented to allow for social distancing.

Entire article: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/joey-chestnut-changes-to-hot-dog-eating-contest

Apparently Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest is not cancelled this year and Joey Chestnut is going for another record.
 
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Joey Chestnut addresses changes to Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, plans to break record

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Every Fourth of July, Nathan’s holds its annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island. Typically, competitors from around the country (and even the world) gather to see who can test the amount of hot dog the human body can handle in front of a cheering crowd.

This year, however, things are going to be different.

The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held at a private indoor location close to Nathan’s Coney Island location, CBS Sports reports. Unlike previous years, the competition will not be held in front of a live audience either.

This year’s competition will also feature fewer participants, with only five eaters competing as opposed to the regular 15. This change has reportedly been implemented to allow for social distancing.

Entire article: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/joey-chestnut-changes-to-hot-dog-eating-contest

Apparently Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest is not cancelled this year and Joey Chestnut is going for another record.
God forbid a hot dog eating contest should be canceled due to health risks.
 
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Joey Chestnut (75), Miki Sudo (48.5) retain Nathan's Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest titles

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Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo still reign supreme when it comes to the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest.

Nobody else is even close.

Chestnut, 36, wolfed down a world record 75 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes on Saturday to win the Mustard Yellow Belt for the 13th time in 14 years. His total topped his own record of 74, set in 2018.

"It was hard," said Chestnut, who consumed roughly 21,750 calories. "I knew I was fast in the beginning. It was like blistering speed. And the dogs were cooked really well today. Minute six is where I really missed the crowd ... and I hit a wall, and it took me a little bit more work to get through it. This is a crazy year, and I'm happy I was able to get a record."

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/i...n-nathan-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest-titles
 
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Soooo the "how much does this silly bastard make from abusing himself like a cheap Thai boy?" thought crosses my capitalistic mind and off to google I go:

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Look at the picture on the right and read the line "His 12 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest victories have resulted in a combined $120,000 worth of winnings...."

Folks.....that just isn't enough money over 12 years to be worth 5 minutes of what he's feeling in that picture.
 
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Soooo the "how much does this silly bastard make from abusing himself like a cheap Thai boy?" thought crosses my capitalistic mind and off to google I go:

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Look at the picture on the right and read the line "His 12 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest victories have resulted in a combined $120,000 worth of winnings...."

Folks.....that just isn't enough money over 12 years to be worth 5 minutes of what he's feeling in that picture.

This.

I expect the moisture that is making that Nathan's t-shirt stick to him is meat sweats. He's not paid for the 10 minutes of eating hot dogs, he's paid for what he's going to be feeling for 3 days. And Jax is right, what he makes isn't worth feeling like that for 5 minutes
 
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Folks.....that just isn't enough money over 12 years to be worth 5 minutes of what he's feeling in that picture.

Just sayin': I'm thinking he doesn't feel all that bad, he's probably conditioned himself (like a professional boxer, football player, or triathlete, etc.) for the "effects" to his body from the event. Also, he eats more than just hot dogs:

Chestnut has won four events this year already, eating croquetas, mutton sandwiches, canteen sandwiches and pepperoni rolls, and taken home $16,500 in prize money.

Chestnut currently owns 49 records officially recognized by Major League Eating https://majorleagueeating.com/records/ , including 141 hard-boiled eggs and 55 glazed donuts in eight minutes each and 121 Twinkies in six minutes.

Entire article: https://fansided.com/2019/07/02/joey-chestnut-bank-account-very-full/
 
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So, a Dr. has tried to figure out what the human capacity for hot dog eating is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/...te=1&user_id=13c02682ba4125a0ef8aac515b657a7e

If you can't read it, here are some highlights:
... For the past few months, Dr. Smoliga, a veterinarian and exercise scientist, had been working on a mathematical analysis of the maximum number of hot dogs that a human could theoretically consume in 10 minutes.

“The answer is 83,” said Dr. Smoliga, a professor at High Point University in North Carolina.

He has now published the full analysis, which calculated this number based on 39 years of historical data from the Nathan’s contest, as well as on mathematical models of human performance that consider the potential for extreme athletic feats.

... The chief factor limiting how much a person (or animal) can eat at once is the stomach’s capacity for stretching to accommodate the volume of food. In 2007, a study examined the digestive tracts of two men — one a competitive eater, the other a regular volunteer — when they took part in a simulated hot dog eating contest in a lab. The control subject stopped after seven hot dogs, declaring that he would be sick if he ate another bite. The speed-eater scarfed down 36 hot dogs.

The study found that the most striking difference between the two men was that the competitive eater’s stomach had an enormous capacity for stretching, and that the food that was eaten during the test stayed in the stomach, rather than being emptied into the intestines, said the study’s senior author, Dr. David Metz, a professor of medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

. . . This performance curve implies that the stomach muscles of competitive eaters may lose their ability to contract back to their original size, leaving them “with a big flaccid bag for a stomach,” he said. (That’s not the only safety concern — at least seven people have died from choking during an eating contest.)

. . . Despite using the same hot dogs and buns for 40 years, the Nathan’s contest has seen performance among elite competitors rise by about 700 percent. “No other sport comes close to that when records are measured in a 100-plus year span,” Dr. Smoliga said.

Although the meteoric rise in the hot dog record is remarkable, the pattern it follows is not, Dr. Joyner said. As an event becomes better known, “people start to train for it because there’s some kind of incentive, like fame or money,” he said. The competition pool becomes deeper, and new records are set.

If Dr. Smoliga’s prediction of 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes seems like a stretch, consider this: In Dr. Metz’s 2007 study, the speed eater had downed 36 hot dogs before the researchers terminated the simulated contest, worried that he might perforate his stomach. Thirteen years later, Mr. Chestnut ate more than two times as many hot dogs, which suggests that we probably won’t know the actual human limit until we reach it.
 
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