Takeru Kobayashi Defeated
Despite his best eating performance ever (and possibly throwing up a couple times), Takeru Kobayashi has failed to win his 7th Nathan’s hot dog eating title:
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 53 1/2. The all-time record before Wednesday’s remarkable contest was Chestnut’s 59 1/2, set just last month.
Kobayashi has stated that he will be back next year.
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To be honest I find this kind of competition is just sick (btw: do they have to puke it up afterwards?). But – well – if I see other competitions, its not the worst (I remember monster truck show seen somewhere staged only to show they can manage to run some 1/4 mile or so burning gallons of gas which would be enough to drive a regular car 30 miles or more)…
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James, are you sure? I just saw the competition on tv and it said Kobayashi won and also broke the record. He ate 53 3/4 hotdogs while Chestnut ate 52 hotdogs.
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You must be reading the 2006 results. All the main news organizations, including the one linked in this update and the Japanese news clip I included, say Kobayashi lost.
Didn’t see my comment.
Kobayashi won the competition. He ate 53 3/4 hotdogs while Chestnut ate 52 hotdogs.
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Annie, the results from yesterday were Chestnut with 66 hotdogs. 66! Once again Americans have something to be proud of. Now if only we could do something about that Iraq place…
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/nyregion/05hotdog.html?ref=nyregion
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Finally all is right again in the world. Given America’s national waistline, it is unnatural for another county to have a person who is the eating champion.
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Really? Then what was I watching today…I hope ESPN didn’t show last year competition.
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ESPN shows replays from previous eating competitions all the time last year Chestnut lost to Kobayashi by a hotdog this year Chestnut one when Kobayashi had a reversal resulting in a 3HDB deduction
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“Reversal” is such a…quaint term.
Once I read that part this morning, I opted NOT to watch the video.
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