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...This is one of my favourite times of year in the sporting calendar: the build up to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on the fourth of July. As blogged previously, Takeru Kobayashi is trying to wrest back his title, and the world record, from Joey Chestnut in the Independence Day dog-off. To assist him [...]
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