Competitive Eating category

Tim Janus appeared on the latest episode of the Run Along podcast to discuss his retirement and the reasons for the termination of his competitive eating career. At the peak of his training, he says he was drinking 3.5 gallons of water multiple times a day, which he immediate threw up.
LexMedia has a video of Geoff Esper attempting the 30 inch pizza at Nick's Place in Lexington, MA without assistance.
The BBC Archive twitter posted a video from 1972 of Bob Owen, "Britain's unofficial egg eating champion" eating 50 raw eggs.
The New York Times has an article about a paper published in Biology Letters by James Smoliga, a physiologist at High Point University. titled "Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans—perspectives from hot dog eating competitions" which claims that the maximum possible total for a human competing in a 10 minute hot dog eating contest is 83 hot dogs. (Science Mag article)
A clip of Nela Zisser's Nutella video posted by The Sun's twitter account currently has 3.9 million views, about 4 times the viewership of the recent Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry have posted a video of their preparation for the Nathan's finals.
Nathan's Famous is selling T-shirts for its hot dog eating contest.
Geoff Esper uploaded a video of a pizza challenge yesterday. While eating 7 Domino's pizzas, he makes no mention of his mystery absence from the 2020 Nathan's finals.
In an interview for TMZ.com, Joey Chestnut said he has no plans to retire and will continue to compete as long as his doctors give him a clean bill of health.
According to ratings announced today, 966,000 viewers watched Saturday's broadcast of the Nathan's finals on ESPN. Despite that number being the lowest since 2005 (860,000), it was the top rated original cable program for the day. The official rating was 0.32, down from 0.55 in 2019.
Mashed.com has a video titled, "The Truth About Competitive Eater L.A. Beast".
Kate Ovens appeared on "The Morning Show" in Australia. 7news.com.au has a video and a transcript of her interview.
Andrew Puhl ate 12 Swiss rolls in 34 seconds to win the third Elite Eats Entertainmnet video contest. Travis "Boomer Eats" M. was runner-up and Mike Hornacek was 3rd.
Barstool Sports has started streaming a hot dog eating where four employees will face off against a bear.
Katina Eats Kilos has surpassed 100K subscribers for her youtube channel. I think she is the third American female competitive eater to exceed that benchmark after Raina Huang and Molly Schuyler. Her recent 72 ounce steak challenge video at The Big Texan has received 680K views in about a week.
The food for the new CrossFAT video contest is five Johnsonville bratwursts or sausages. Entries close July 6.
Andrew Puhl ate 12 McDonald's cheeseburgers in 2:30 to win the second Elite Eats Entertainment video contest. Mike Hornacek was runner-up. The food for the new contest is 12 Little Debbie Swiss rolls.
News 12 has a video about Miki Sudo preparing for the Nathan's finals with assistance from Nick Wehry. In her latest training session, she ate 50 hot dogs in less than 10 minutes.
Leah Shutkever has passed 200K subscribers for her youtube channel.
Michelle Lesco announced that her competing in the 2020 Nathan's finals is in doubt due to New York's requirement that Arizona residents self-quarantine for 14 days after their arrival in the Empire State.

Nathan’s personal bests

The following is a list of all the Nathan’s Famous personal bests for competitors with a known result in the database.

2018 Jul 4 74 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jul 4 64.5 Takeru Kobayashi Brooklyn, NY
2018 Jul 4 64 Carmen Cincotti Brooklyn, NY
2015 Jul 4 62 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jul 4 55 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Brooklyn, NY
2009 Jul 4 53 Tim “Eater X” Janus Brooklyn, NY
2017 Jun 18 51 Geoffrey Esper Boston, MA
2019 Jul 4 50 Darron Breeden Brooklyn, NY
2012 Jul 4 45 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Brooklyn, NY
2012 Jul 4 45 Bob “The Notorious B.O.B.” Shoudt Brooklyn, NY

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American Fast Food Stories has posted a behind the scenes video from the 2019 Nathan's finals.
Inspired by Aretha Franklin's scene in "The Blues Brothers", Geoff Esper attempted to eat 4 fried chickens, toast and a Coke in a recent video.
In Leah Shutkever's latest video, she attempts to break Lynda Kuerth's mark of 23 bunless hot dogs in 3:10, which was recognized as a Guinness World Record in 1977.

Highest Nathan’s Famous averages

This is the same list of Nathan’s Famous hot dog results posted yesterday sorted by contest average.

# Total Avg. Max.
18 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 1068.00 59.33 74
9 Takeru Kobayashi 487.75 54.19 64.5
7 Carmen Cincotti 324.00 46.29 64
15 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie 683.00 45.53 62
7 Darron Breeden 291.00 41.57 50
22 Tim “Eater X” Janus 900.75 40.94 53
11 Geoffrey Esper 437.75 39.80 51
4 Max Suzuki 156.50 39.12 42.5
16 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti 617.75 38.61 55
8 Miki Sudo 299.50 37.44 41

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