Hot Dog Eating Champs Squeeze Out Mustard Belt Wins

[hrmjustin]

Frankly speaking, Joey Chestnut is once again top dog at the 98th annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Chestnut won a record-breaking seventh straight Mustard Belt Thursday by downing 69 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.

That beats his old world record of 68.

The runner-up finished with just 51 dogs.

Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/184985/hot-dog-eating-champs-squeeze-out-mustard-belt-wins

[richmwill]

1. Until Nathan's lets Takeru Kobayashi re-enter the contest, the results are null and void to me...

I feel they looked for any excuse to boot him out of their contests because they hated seeing a Japanese man win this contest year after year on the 4th of July. Just my opinion.

[hrmjustin]

2. What was the reason they gave for giving him the boot?

[TlalocW]

3. According to Wikipedia

The Major League Eating organization that's in charge of the event want him to sign a contract not to participate in non-MLE events, and he's refused to do so.

And MLE's entry... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Eating

TlalocW

[hrmjustin]

4. How typical!

It is always about money in the end.

[longship]

5. 69 in 10 minutes? Do you expect me to swallow that story?