hot dog eating record breaker[views:3125][posts:6]_________________________________________ [Jul 5,2004 2:15pm - intricateprocess ""] NEW YORK (July 5) -- When it comes to eating hot dogs, ''The Tsunami'' still blows everybody away. For the fourth straight year, rail-thin Takeru Kobayashi chewed up the competition at the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating competition Sunday, breaking his own previous world record. Takeru Kobayashi shoves two hot dogs at a time into his mouth during the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating contest in New York. Kobayashi, 26, of Nagano, Japan, gulped down 53 1/2 wieners in 12 minutes and shattered his own world record by three dogs. In 2002, he had wolfed down 50 1/2. The closest competitor Sunday was newcomer Nobuyuki Shirota, 25, of Tokyo, who made an impressive showing but couldn't cut the mustard with 38 downed dogs. Once again, then, the contest's coveted Mustard Yellow Belt returns to Japan. Since 1996, the Japanese have dominated the competition and only one American - New Jersey's Steve Keiner in 1999 - has captured the belt at the signature July 4 extravaganza. The 5-foot-7, 132-pound Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, employed his trademark method of snapping the dogs in half before swallowing them to destroy the 19 other contestants. Meanwhile, 105-pound Sonya ''The Black Widow'' Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va., could relish two new records: She ate more hot dogs - 32 - than any other woman and any other American in the contest's history. Eric ''Badlands'' Booker, a 6-foot-4, 400-pound subway conductor from Long Island who came in fifth with 27 dogs, said he and the other competitive eaters were determined to unseat the Japanese. ''We aren't going to stop until we bring the belt back,'' he told ESPN. Kobayashi seemed unworried. ''I will come back next year and try and break the record once again,'' he said. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 5,2004 2:16pm - subjugate ""] next year we outta send joe of not common |
| _____________________________________ [Jul 5,2004 2:43pm - the_reverend ""] yeah, joe can gulp more than two wieners at once. |
| __________________________________________________ [Jul 5,2004 10:32pm - the taste of cigarettes ""] I ate, um, 7 veggie dogs at Spike's and got my picture on the wall. does that make me famous? I did it twice! |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 6,2004 9:10am - Joe/NotCommon ""] Nick Kevorkian could devastate little Tsunami. |
| ________________________________ [Jul 6,2004 10:43am - Abbath ""] that kid has to be a japanese whore or something they did a special on him on discovery channel a while ago and showed what his stomach looks like, he transformed it somehow it was pretty weird |
| _________________________________________ [Jul 6,2004 10:43am - attendmyrequiem ""] the_reverend said:yeah, joe can gulp more than two wieners at once. hahahahaahah I always knew it! |