Competitive Eating category

Miki Sudo's and Nick Wehry's eating benchmarks appear in Guinness' list of record-breaking couples.
The Overpromised with Covino and Rich podcast has an interview with Joey Chestnut recorded at the Super Bowl. He says he has yet to reach an agreement with Major League Eating about returning to Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
The Financial Times reports that Nathan's Famous has begun preliminary discussions about selling the company and taking it off stock market listings. The article says that selling licensed hot dogs manufactured by Smithfield Foods at supermarkets and other stores is the largest component of Nathan's revenues.

Madison.com on Lake Mills, WI choking incident

Madison.com has an article about the choking incident at a Lake Mills, WI hot dog eating contest on February 2. The victim, Tim Vogel, was intoxicated with a blood alcohol level of .32. (Turn off JavaScript to bypass paywall)

Vogel’s ribs, some of which had cracked under the weight of compressions, held lungs filled with fluid, and an oxygen machine was doing at least 60% of his breathing for him, Dorn said. He was coughing up blood.

“I didn’t even know for probably about 15 hours if he was going to make it,” Dorn said.

Once he was conscious and showing signs of improvement, doctors placed Vogel on a temporary liquid diet due to the trauma in his throat; he jokingly lamented that he hadn’t been able to finish his hot dogs.

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