All of the pre-competition hype about this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest was around Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time champion who was knocked off last year by Californian nobody Joey Chestnut. Kobayashi suffered jaw problems - so-called “jaw-thritis” - in the lead up to the 2007 contest and was only defeated narrowly, leading many commentators [...]
Continue reading...Takeru Kobayashi is under pressure. Beaten into second place in last year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest by a Californian upstart named Joey Chestnut, breaking the Tsunami’s run of six consecutive titles, the International Federation of Competitive Eating has Kobayashi ranked third going into late-stage preparations for the 2008 edition of the annual July 4 [...]
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Friday, July 4, 2008