(From Erik Denmark) A video clip of Erik Denmark’s appearance on Komo – TV’s Northwest Afternoon can be viewed at http://www.komotv.com/nwa/6410947.html?video=pop&t=a

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From Erik Denmark’s blog:

For those of you in Washington State, you can see me on the popular mid-day talk show, Northwest Afternoon on KomoTV (ABC)tomorrow – Thursday, July 18 at 3:00 pm PST.

During the segment I will answer questions from the hosts Kent and Natasha and we will have a one minute jalapeno eating contest.

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Erik Denmark has written a report about his experience in last week’s Nathan’s finals which includes some interesting information about Joey Chestnuts counters:

I heard from someone who was watching Joey on stage that he was eating from multiple plates at the same time. This was more than likely a ploy to make it difficult for Kobayashi to determine where Chestnut’s actual numbers were at. This was a brilliant tactic by Joey because not only did it confuse Kobayashi, the judges totally messed up his count as well. Joey maintained at least a 3-5 hot dog lead throughout the competition. Joey’s counter was off by as many as 5 hot dogs for the entire second half of the contest when it looked like Kobayashi was catching up. The contest was never tied, not even close. Joey cleared his mouth with amazing ease in about 10 seconds after his final stuff, partly because he was so infuriated with his judge for screwing up his count, he wanted to tell him. If you read Joey’s lips he can be seen clearly telling his counter that his count was off by five repeadtedly when he clears his mouth at the end of the contest.

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Kobayashi has the following quote in today’s New York Times wrap-up of Nathan’s contest.

Mr. Kobayashi bowed and was humble in defeat. But he also pointed straight at Mr. Chestnut and yelled, “I will definitely beat him next year.”

It is not clear how Kobayashi will gain entry into the 2008 finals since he no longer receives a bye as defending champion and no qualifier was held in Tokyo this year.

Other post contest links
SJ Mercury article about Joey Chestnut’s victory – Joey will attend Kobayashi’s P’Zone exhibition next week.
Joey Chestnut podcast on KCBS
Erik Denmark article from the Seattle Times
WNBC article and raw video
Video clip of Kobayashi’s reversal from theblogofhilarity (via thebiglead.com)
audience video showing what was going on during the last commercial break from cyber fyber
news video from News 12 Brooklyn
Gothamist blog entry
Observations from Megamunch about ESPN censorship – the reversal was not mentioned on SportsCenter either
Commentary from Wing Tut

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The Seattle Times has a long article about Erik “the Red” Denmark with coverage of his victory at the Shea Stadium qualifier. Denmark had about $10,000 in travel expenses last year.

Rich Shea says he is unaware of any diabetic eaters, which would come as news to Pat Philbin.

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(From Erik Denmark) Erik Denmark has written a preview of tomorrow’s pigs feet contest that he will compete in. Some of the other expected entrants are Crazy Legs, Justin Mih and Skinnyboy.

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Erik Denmark answers several questions about relationships in a page on nerve.com

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has posted a report from his victory at Sunday’s Shea stadium qualifier along with a link to a flickr gallery of the contest.

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Liz has a post-contest interview with Erik “the Red” Denmark in urbanhonking.com/truefan

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From MosesNews.com via Todd the Butler:

Erik The Red Denmark – 26.5 + 3 in overtime
Pat Philbin – 26.5
Allen Goldstein – 25.5
Russ Keeler – 20
Brian Subich – 19

Erik Denmark has won a contest in a New York City baseball stadium for the second year in a row.

MosesNews.com also has a gallery of today’s contest.

update
BeautifulBrian.com has a report from Shea Stadium with some pictures

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has an interesting post about the villains of sports and analyzes which eaters qualify as villains:

The first name that comes to mind is obviously Dale Boone. Dale fit’s most of the criteria – controversial, unpredictable, arrogant, boastful, antagonistic and he has been suspended multiple times for misbehavior as well. The one thing lacking in Boone’s resume as a villain is legitimacy as a top eater. He may have been in the top ten in talent at one time but now his shouts of self confidence and guarantees of victory seem more like mere antics than real threats.

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Erik Denmark reports that a podcast of his interview on Seattle sports radio is available.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from Saturday’s fried asparagus eating contest in which he was runner up in his blog along with a flickr gallery of that event.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has returned to blogging after the tragic death of his mother with his thoughts on the state of Major League Eating at the conclusion of the first quarter of 2007.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a tribute to his mother on his blog:

I am coming back to competitive eating soon and I still have very high expectations for myself this year. I will dedicate any and all of my successes and victories this year to the memory of my Mom. She was the first to feed me and she fed me a lot.

I think I can speak for the competitive eating community in saying that it mourns the loss of Erik’s mother and looks forward to seeing Erik back at the table.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has a report from the Fry Bread contest at the Arizona State Fair in his blog.

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AZCentral reports that Erik “the Red” Denmark won yesterday’s Sky City Casino Fry Bread Eating Contest at the Arizona State Fair. Jed Donahue was 2nd. Jason Erb took 3rd place according to a result entered into the eatfeats database. Congratulations to Erik for winning his first non-qualifier contest.

1. Erik Denmark 9.75 fry bread slices in 8 minutes
2. Jed Donahue 8.5
3. Jason “The Erbivore” Erb 6.5

Also listed as competing:
Jeremiah “El Toro” Jimenez, Frank “Fraggle” Wach, Russell “The Black Hole” Blackwell, Shane McBride and Ralph Cunningham

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