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America Back On Top!
What greater way to celebrate our nation's independence than for an American to take back the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest from reigning six-time consecutive champion Takeru Kobayashi?
The world's richest man may no longer be an American, but as competitive eating ranks a close second to capitalism among our national pastimes, Joey "Jaws" Chestnut should surely be hailed as an American hero.
The money quote from a contest liveblogger:
Barring a regurgitation, this is the greatest contest in competitive eating history.
Alas, in the final moments, regurgitation did come into play.
KOBAYASHI REVERSES!! With five seconds to go, Kobayashi lost his hot dogs, which, if the judges rule it vomit rather than drool, will be an automatic disqualification. Either way, Chestnut appeared to have won by about half a dog.
On replay, it's clear that Kobayashi vomited.
Joey Chestnut is the 2007 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating champion.
Chestnut's unrefunded ingestion of 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes shattered Kobayashi's world record of 53, set in 2006.
Update: Video of the thrilling victory (and the agony of de-vomitus).
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Correction: Chestnut had set the record at 59 a few months ago in Arizona with Nathan's regulation dogs. The 53 was the Nathan's 4th of July record.Posted by: Nor | Jul 5, 2007 9:49:22 AM
