Joey Chestnut downs record 69 hot dogs at Coney Island eating contest

[dipsydoodle]

Joey Chestnut ate 69 franks, devouring his own record in the men's Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Thursday. Sonya Thomas defended her title in the women's competition.

Chestnut, who is from San Jose in California and is known as Jaws, ate one more wiener than his previous record to capture the mustard-yellow champion's belt. He said afterward that he was motivated by the prestige, not the $10,000 prize money. "I'd do this for nothing," he said.

Thomas, a 100lb dynamo known as the Black Widow of competitive eating, wolfed down nearly 37 wieners to narrowly win the women's title.

Chestnut, 29, is a seven-time winner who set the old record – 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes – in 2009 and tied it in 2012. Thomas, 45, powered through 45 dogs to take the women's championship last year and also won in 2011, the first year women competed separately.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/04/joey-chestnut-hot-dogs-eating-contest

[In_The_Wind]

1. It's amazing how some people will abuse their bodies.

[Ron Obvious]

2. 100 lbs dynamo

What does he do with these hot dogs after he eats them? Or do I not want to know?

[ZombieHorde]

3. Insane. nt

[dballance]

4. Why is the women's prize 5k while men's is 10k?

Anybody else notice that? I'd be a bit angry if I were a woman. That just screams that women are half as worthy as men.