Japanese still dominate in Hot Dog eating.
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.
Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, gulped down 53½ wieners in 12 minutes and shattered his own world record by three dogs. In 2002, he had wolfed down 50½.
Not only that but the second place competitor was Japanese also. It seems that Americans cannot cut the mustard in eating competitions anymore, though one competitor did vow to unseat the reigning champion and bring the trophy back home to the US. I think the reason that Kobayashi is so dominant is that he seems to take the competition very seriously and probably trains like an athlete for it whereas his American rivals seem to be just big and fat. As long as Kobayashi continues competing I can’t see the trophy ever returning to the US.
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