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The "I'm a Competitive Eater" episode of MTV True Life can be viewed on youtube. The program documents the competitive eating careers of Takeru Kobayashi, Tim "Eater X" Janus and Ian "The Invader" Hickman in the summer of 2005. Watch (or record) it quickly; it may not remain up forever.
Time Magazine on competitive eating health risks
Time Magazine has an article about competitive eating health risks which also offers an update on Tim “Eater X” Janus.
Tim Janus, a 47-year old ex-competitive eater who Metz has studied in scientific research, quit the sport in 2016 after 11 years “out of an abundance of caution” partly based on Metz’s findings about the risks. He was also concerned about the harms of throwing up following competition, a practice that he describes as widespread. “When you’re eating that much food, you can’t digest it all,” he says. “Your stomach is too full to move things along. Throwing up after the contest is a necessary part of the sport.”
Janus tried to collaborate with other pro eaters to share and track their health to better understand the effects of competing, but he couldn’t rally their interest. He’s now a foreign service officer in Mexico City in good health. Most of his former competitors say they’re healthy, too, but he “didn’t want to continue and realize I made a mistake.”
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.
Tim "Eater X" Janus announced that he moved to Korea yesterday. After this move, all of the protagonists in the book Horsemen of the Esophagus are now either living in Asia (Takeru Kobayashi, Tim Janus) or retired (Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, Sonya "The Black Widow Thomas", AICE co-founders).
Tim "Eater X" Janus announced that ESPN wanted him to provide commentary during the Nathan's telecast in 2017, but he was blocked from that role by someone he does not name.
In a response to a twitter inquiry about the possibility of a comeback, Tim "Eater X" Janus says he threw up almost 10,000 times over the course of his 12 year competitive eating career, which has had an unknown impact on his health.
Kids Access Press Team has a video of interviews done at the red carpet at the premier of The Good, The Bad, The Hungry. When asked about "reversals", Tim Janus said everyone did it after the competition concluded.
Panels from a comic strip starring Tim "Eater X" Janus by Jeff Mahannah have been posted on instagram.
Jeff Mahannah is drawing a comic about the Nathan's finals starring Tim "Eater X" Janus.
Parade.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in The Amazing Race. He says that Tim "Eater X" Janus was his first choice for partner and he wouldn't change that decision despite their elimination in Wednesday's episode. He says he is disappointed there was no big eating challenge during the race and he wishes he had ran more before starting to get in better shape. update Jan 30 Reality TV World also has an interview with Joey Chestnut.
Team Chomp, consisting of Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus, was eliminated from season 30 of The Amazing Race after they had difficulty solving a puzzle based on a Van Gogh painting at the end of last night's episode recorded in south France. They were beat out for the final spot by Team Wellstrung, a pair of bodybuilding violinists. Other challenges Team Chomp did yesterday included boating with a single person sailboat, catapult construction, sandal making and a bocce style game called petanque. Team Chomp was the only duo to attempt the painting challenge; other teams did a challenge in a Roman arena now used for bullfighting.
The Amazing Race youtube channel has a preview video for Wednesday's episode recorded in Tangiers, Morocco starring Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus. It appears one of the challenges Team Chomp will face will be belly dancing.
The Amazing Race youtube channel has a video Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus doing the Icelandic drinks challenge that did not appear in last week's episode. Crossfit champion KatrÃn DavÃðsdóttir was their server. There is another outtake video of "Team Chomp" discussing their competitive eating records.
Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus, competing as Team Chomp, managed to avoid finishing in last place in yesterday's debut episode of the 30th season of The Amazing Race and will appear in week 2. The most daunting challenge of the episode was traversing a gorge in Iceland using a zipline. Teams also had to imbibe Icelandic alcohol; Team Chomp's drinking did not appear in the episode. This is not the first reality TV show, the duo appeared in. In a 2010 episode of Shaq vs. Joey Chestnut faced off in a hot dog eating contest against the NBA great after he was coached by Tim Janus (via 2 paragraphs)
Youtube has an interview with Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus about competing in the 30th season of The Amazing Race as "Team Chomp". The first episode of the series will be televised on January 3.
CBS officially announced the two-person teams that will compete on season 30 of The Amazing Race starting on January 3. Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" will be competing as "Team Chomp". In an interview, Joey Chestnut says he hopes to show the world "that competitive eaters are the best at solving problems". (video interview)
Season 30 of The Amazing Race will run on CBS from January 3, 2018 to February 21, 2018. One of the two person teams will consist of Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus.
Joey Chestnut and Tim "Eater X" Janus are reportedly a team for the upcoming season of CBS' The Amazing Race, which started recording today in New York City. Television commitments might have been the reason Joey Chestnut withdrew from yesterday's pork roll eating contest. (Group picture, Joey Chestnut & Tim Janus are on the right side)
The Sporkful has an interview with Tim "Eater X" Janus on how health concerns led to his retirement from competitive eating in 2015. (The first half of the program is a rerun of a 2012 podcast).
Tim Janus’ 40th birthday today
Today is Tim Janus’ 40th birthday. Here is a list of all his MLE victories:
Tim Janus' appearance on Friday night's episode of the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim can be viewed online.
Tim "Eater X" Janus is expected to appear on the Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim at midnight tonight.
IMDB.com has an entry for ScarfFace, a competitive eating documentary that is currently filming. Tim Janus leads the list of stars; other cast members include Crazy Legs Conti and Miki Sudo.
MLE top 50 updated, Tim “Eater X” Janus dropped
Michael Deitz noticed the MLE top 50 was updated today. Tim “Eater X” was ejected from the #4 position, ending a streak in the rankings of at least a decade. Other ejections are Scott Thomas (#35) and Marlene Wigginton (#43). New entrants are Steven Schuster (#22) Michael Dietz(#34) and Kassandra Zapata (#42).
It is interesting that Scott Thomas and Marlene Wigginton were removed when they had done competitions in the last 365 days. Eric Livingston and Ben Do have not competed since 2014.
On twitter, Tim "Eater X" announced that he will not be competing in Nathan's in 2016. This should result in a tight race for the men's third place in the Nathan's finals.
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