JOEY CHESTNUT WINS HOT DOG EATING CONTEST AGAIN

Competitive eater Joey Chestnut has set a new record for Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, after swallowing an astonishing 72 hot dogs in ten minutes earning him his 10th championship win. The defending men’s champion winner was awarded the coveted Mustard Belt at New York City’s Coney Island on Tuesday. “I know that I could have done better,” he told ESPN shortly after his big win. Chestnut’s previous contest record of 70 hot dogs was set last year, although he has eaten a personal best 73 hot dogs in a qualifying round. The second place winner gulped down 60 hot dogs, and the guy in third place swallowed 48. In the women’s division, for the fourth year in a row, Mikki Sudo took the title after guzzling down 41 hot dogs.
* I’m strangely excited now.
* ESPN, your sports authority.
* You ask how these people can eat so much, how can their stomachs be so empty? Before the contest, they all take a few spins on the Cyclone roller coaster.
* Who among the contestants set the spew record this year? There’s usually two categories, quantity and distance.
* How do you suppose this contest plays at, say, a Syrian refugee camp?