The world record for competitive hot dog eating has been broken in the US. Joey “Jaws” Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the annual 4 July contest at Coney Island in New York, shattering his old record of 66.
His main rival, Japan’s six-time winner Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi, ate 64 and a half. It is thought the two men ate around 19,000 calories between them. - BBC News, July 5, 2009
