Several Czech language articles and a gallery about the eating contests held at the Trnkobraní festival this weekend are available. Pat Bertoletti and Hall Hunt participated in a pizza contest held yesterday. An hour long dumpling eating contest will take place today. Pat Bertoletti hopes to break the record of 191 dumplings set in 2003.

update An article with the results of the dumpling contest is available (from Steakbellie)

1. Pat Bertoletti 233 dumplings, new record (had 200 after 35 minutes)
2. Kamil Hamersky 162 dumplings
3. Hall Hunt 134 dumplings

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The top 4 of today’s Goya National Black Bean Eating Championship held at the Central Islip Islandia Festival have been posted:

1. Tom “Goose” Gilbert 11LBs 1 oz. $1,000
2. Ian “The Invader” Hickman 9 LBS 1oz. $500
3. “Fabulous” Floria Lee 6 Lbs 6 oz $250, sanctioned contest debut
4. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 6 Lbs 3 oz

update Jill Stoler has a blog entry about her absence from the contest and the controversy over the third place results.

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• 120 ounce steak at Brand Steakhouse in Las Vegas, free if eaten by one person, $267 otherwise
• San Francisco spam musubi eating contest September 6
• CNBC on the effects of inflation on Michael Phelps’ diet
• Saratoga Nathan’s contest Monday to be 12 minutes?
• Gallery of wing eating contest before Bills – Steelers game in Toronto
• Slots still available for Vancouver, BC Nathan’s non-qualifier Monday. The contest will be 6 minutes.
• 1993 article about Czech dumpling contest.
• Nanticoke, PA pierogi eating contest Sunday.

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Even though Gyaruru is on hiatus, a Japanese female competitive eater will release a CD this summer. Kana Kanisawa has put out a CD on the South to North label titled (according to Google translation) “Food Without grumbling to eat!”

Kana’s singing can be heard on a youtube karaoke video. She strips down to a bikini while performing.

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(from hungrysisters) The website for the Sun Fun Festival has a list of entrants in the Pork Barbecue Sandwich Eating Contest. Half of the current IFOCE top 10 is expected: Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti, Bob Shoudt, Hall Hunt and Juliet Lee.

Cory Hayashi has emailed the list of competitors for the gyoza eating contest that will take place on August 23 at the Nisei Week Japanese Festival in Los Angeles: Pat Bertoletti (#2), Rich LeFevre (#7), Erik Denmark (#12), Tim Brown (#13), Kevin Ross (#29), El Toro (#41), and Shawn Kirby (#48). Actresss Miki Mia (The 40 Year Old Virgin) and the 2007 Nisei Week Queen and Court will also compete.

Mike Nafziger has emailed that Bob Shoudt will probably attend the Chattanooga qualifier and he might do an exhibition.

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• St. Louis sushi contest September 21. First prize is a trip to Japan.
• Sushi Bowl eating contest held in New York City
• PETA takes credit for cancellation of cockroach eating contest
• Miss Busy Lady’s friend eats 50 chicken wings in one sitting
• WLOCE hires Terry Barker to MC
• Nathan Biller’s Nathan’s gallery (facebook registration required)

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(from Crawfish comment) A chili spaghetti eating contest will take place at Kings Island amusement park in Cincinnati on Labor Day, September 1. Registration will open on Friday August 15 at 1 pm eastern. Joey Chestnut is an expected entrant.

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A video of a beer drinking contest beteween Joey Chestnut and Dewey has been posted to yardbarker.com. The winner finishes his pitcher of beer in under 10 seconds.

update In other Joey Chestnut video news, Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis noted that Joey Chestnut winning the bikini fries contest in Austin last year was the #2 video on youtube yesterday. It currently has almost 250,000 views. I have not been able to find cause for the traffic surge.

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Recently a television program starring Tomoko Miyake was accused of claiming she ate more than she actually did. The new poll asks how common you think fakery is in televised Japanese competitive eating.

An anonymous account of last year’s pumpkin eating contest in Rhode Island claims additional discrepancies in another program Tomoko Miyake appeared in.

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The PhillyBurbs blog reports that Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, NJ will host a hot dog eating contest on Sunday. The first prize is a $1,000 trip voucher.

update Press of Atlantic City reports the contest is for amateurs only and that a Nathan’s qualifier will be held at the Trump Plaza on Memorial Day weekend next year.

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An announcement on KrystalSquareOff.com reports that the purse for this year’s Krystal Square Off will be $50000. The prize breakdown:

1st $20,000 2nd – $10,000 3rd – $5,000 4th – $3,000; 5th – $2,500; 6th – $2,000; 7th – $1,850; 8th – $1,500; 9th – $1,400; 10th – $1,250; 11th – $1,000; 12th – $500.

12 prizes and 11 known slots (7 qualifier winners, 3 wild cards and Joey Chestnut’s bye) probably implies that Kobayashi will also receive a bye.

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The New York Post has an article about the diet of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps which consists of 3 meals containing 4,000 calories each for a total of approximately 12,000 calories. Phelps’ typical breakfast:

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog and Bleacher Report have entries about Phelps’ food consumption. The eight gold medal hopeful is a regular patron of Pete’s Grill in Baltimore according to a MyFoxDC article, so perhaps he could enter that restaurant’s annual pancake eating contest.

The New York Times has a slideshow of Olympians which lists their daily calorie consumption:

• Christian Cantwell, shotput, 335 lbs., 5000 calories
• Deena Kastor, marathon, 103 lbs., 4000 calories
• Cheryl Haworth, weightlifting, 300 lbs., 3000 – 4000 calories
• Brett Newlin, rowing, 225 lbs., 6000 calories
• Sarah Hammer, cycling, 135 lbs., 4500 calories

Rower Jamie Schroeder estimates he consumes 8,000 – 10,000 calories a day.

Volleyball player Stacy Sykora has the highest daily calorie consumption I could find for a current female Olympian at 5,000, with a sizeable percentage of that coming from McDonald’s burgers.

Canadian rower Heather Clarke might have set the all time record for female Olympians when she consumed 10,000 calories a day in preparing for the 1980 games.

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MSNBC has a video of all the food listed in the New York Post article
An article and video about Michael Phelps’ visits to Michigan restaurants are available.
Youtube has a NBC commercial about Phelps
RushLimbaugh.com has a commentary on Phelps’ diet and the British left-wing newspaper The Guardian calls Phelps a “right greedy pig”
ABC news has an article on Olympians diets
According to a Saturday Night Live transcript, Diana Nyad ate 12,000 – 12,500 calories a day while training for ultramarathon swimming, which is not an Olympic sport.

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MyFoxDC reports that Natural Balance sponsored a dog food eating contest for dog owners at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The competitors ate food from the Eatables for Dogs brand, which is marketed as being made in a USDA plant with 100 percent USDA ingredients. Jimmy and Dick Van Patten (“Eight is Enough”) served as emcees.

Gallery

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Please place results from yesterday’s Wakefield National Sandwich Eating Championship held at the Foodservice at Retail Expo in Schaumburg, Illinois in the comments of this post.

update results from a GJoe comment:

1) Bob “Killer” Kuhn’s Made it to the “dinner table”.
2) Ian “The Invader” Hickman One sub shy of the dinner table.
3) “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 1.25 subs shy of dinner table.
4 )Miss Elizabeth Canady 1.3 subs shy of the dinner table.

PioneerLocal.com has an article about the contest

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• Pat Bertoletti practices for Krystals: video 1, video 2. Pat says the contest in the Czech republic he will compete in will be an hour long.
• Birmingham, Michigan cupcake eating contest August 15
• Furious Pete seeks input on an eating contest to be held at the Mr. Olympia expo
• Suggestion on prize to be included with Joey Chestnut baseball card
• Aurora, OH burger challenge increases by a half a pound when somebody successfully completes it.

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(From Cole Wimpee) BroadwayWorld.com reports that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear at the Binge Olympiad which will be held at the Wings Theater in the West Village. Booker’s myspace calendar says he will appear at the August 15 and August 23 shows. Eating contests will be held during the festival, but dates and foods are not listed.

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(From comment) IFOCE.com has been updated with information about the return of the Harrah’s Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship to Bossier City, Louisiana on September 13. Like last year, the purse will be $10,000. Registration will open on Wednesday, August 13 at 1pm eastern.

After having no contest with a purse larger than $5,000 in the first half of 2008, five IFOCE contests in the the third quarter will award total prizes of at least $10,000 (Nathan’s, Krystal, OK BBQ, kolaches and grits)

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• Nathan’s hot dog eating contest August 16 in Stuarts Draft, VA. Prize is $100 gas card.
• Nathan’s finals gallery by FooBarDude
• Video of butter eating contest (will Don Lerman sue for intellectual property violation?)
• Website for Brooklyn pizza contest at http://annualbrooklynpizzaeatingcontest.com/
• Gal Sone goes to Tokyo Disneyland. (Her favorite rides are Space Mountain and Splash Mountain)

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(From Mark Hinske) PostCrescent.com has a report on the Burgerfest held in Seymour, Wisconsin on Saturday. A caption reports that Mike Fitzgerald won the Hardee’s Thickburger eating contest by eating 7 and a third burgers in 12 minutes. Another caption claims that “The Hammer” also broke the contest record. Sonya Thomas ate 7 Thickburgers to win the 2003 contest, but the contest length was only 10 minutes. (The previous record is listed as 5.25 thickburgers)

A 120 pound burger patty was cooked during the festival and served to attendees.

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Registration is now closed for the Atlanta Krystal qualifier on September 6. Registration is listed as open for the other 6 qualifiers.

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Some captures from the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest footage at the start of the History Channel’s Evolve: Guts have been attached.

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Nikkan Sports reports that the magazine “Modern Weekly” is alleging that Tomoko Miyake did not actually consume all the food she appeared to eat in a Nippon Television program.

Tomoko will appear (briefly) along with the other competitors in the giant burger contest held earlier this year at the Clinton Station Diner on the History Channel’s “Evolve:Guts” at 11 pm and 3 am eastern tonight

update The Mainichi Shimbun reports that Nippon Television has apologized for the deception and attributes the inaccuracies to miscounting.

Tomoko Miyake addresses the magazine article’s claims in a blog entry which begins (according to Google Translation)

The weekly magazine article about the concern that everybody did deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

A look at the article, friends and fans worried about people from a lot of mail and messages encouraging words.

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• Swallow Your Pride Wing Bowl documentary to be screened at the First Person Festival in Philadelphia in November
• English article (from Austraila) about Gal Sone’s loss in this year’s Gluttonous Queen contest
• Preferred seating for spectators at Chattanooga Krystal qualifier available
• Vancouver, Canada hot dog eating contest August 18
• Short article about Arkansas City, Kansas hot dog eating contest.

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The Newton (Georgia) Citizen has a profile of Ben Griffith, who finished in fourth place in June’s Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier and in the 2006 Waffle House contest at Stone Mountain.

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• Roger Robinson finishes Sasquatch burger challenge 3 times in less than 2 months
• NYC falafel eating contest returns August 31
• Louisville, KY cheesesteak eating contest August 31
• MLE video game ranked at #14 in top WiiWare games
• Guinness World Record attempt hot dog eating contest in Reno today

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