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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• Myspace page for Billy “the Fridge”, winner of Saturday’s donut contest in Seattle
• Forest City, PA pierogi eating contest Saturday
• A more positive review of the MLE video game
• Long blog entry about the Singapore contest
• Bodybuilder / competitive eater Isabelle Turell wins a bodybuilding contest and gets engaged
  

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After successfully completing a 48 ounce steak challenge bodybuilder Isabelle Turell is taking suggestions for her next eating challenge:

I even thought about doing a video clip on my cheat meal as I am due for another one. Maybe I could do a challenge with eating 20 McDonalds cheeseburgers in less than 20 mins. Any other suggestions. LOL.

Trust me I can eat

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Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has a picture and brief account of her eating a 48 ounce steak on her blog. She was rewarded with a free meal, a T shirt and a picture on the unnamed restaurant’s wall for finishing the steak in under 20 minutes.

update Isabelle has additional comments on her finishing the steak in a bodybuilding forum thread. She has been banned by the restaurant (which is probably Sam’s Steakhouse in Terre Haute, Indiana) from attempting the challenge again.

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In the comments to a video of a Pointersaurus attempt, “socca4u” announced that she and her sister became the first all female team to complete the 12+ pound pizza and win $500, but their feat had yet to be recorded on Pointer’s web site. The finishers list has now been updated to include Pam and Jennifer Cooney of Katy, Texas. Another comment says the two women finished in 20 minutes (I believe one of the two IFOCE teams took 14 minutes).

“socca4u” is most likely Pam Cooney because she was a member of University of Alamaba at Birmingham soccer team. She competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel and was named both all-American by the Jewish Sports Review and to the first team of the 2005 NSCAA/adidas College Women Scholar All-South Region after posting a 3.77 gpa.
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The website for the newspaper of Providence College has an interview with Michael Springer. Springer was prohibited from competing in the finals for the “Eat The Meat” wing contest after winning a qualifier, but that ban was not mentioned in the interview.

In other news about big eating Friars, this Rhode Island Monthly article about former Providence basketball player, and current ESPN announcer, Doris Burke, reports she is the second biggest eater in women’s basketball:

She’s hungry, and as she parks in the darkness of a casino garage she hopes she isn’t too late for the crew lunch. She works out ninety minutes most days at a gym near her house, and she is as slender as she was twenty years ago when she played at PC. You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she can out-eat any woman on the basketball circuit but one, and she’s half Burke’s age.

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Juris Shibayama answers 10 questions on IFOCE.com
U of Penn student newspaper report about the Wing Bowl
Cornell Sun report from Wing Bowl 16
philadelphia.about.com Wing Bowl 16 gallery, has pictures of Juris Shibayama, Erik Denmark, Wing Kong, Humble Bob, Wing Tut, US Male, Joey Chestnut, Pat Bertoletti and others
Gallery of Hamtrack, MI paczki eating contest
Takuya Yamamoto thinks the root beer he drank in the USA is Coke with a “drug-ish kind of taste”
Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell eats a 1 pound burger and then a half pound ostrich burger

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The segment containing diners’ attempts to break their personal bests in Blimpy Burgers from last night’s episode of “Diners Drive Ins & Dives” on the Food Network has been uploaded (7MB about 3 minutes)

The record holder, James Rocker, appears but does not try to break his mark of 40 patties. Rocker has an account of his record attempt on his live journal.

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Tonight’s episode of “Diners, Drive Ins and Dives” on the Food Network, titled “Burgers, Rings and Fries”, closes with Lauren Lobert of the University of Michigan’s women’s hockey team eating 21 burgers. She mentions her eating ability on her hockey team page where she says she has the female record for eating Blimpie Burgers. The episode will rerun at 1am (10pm Pacific) and I will try to record it and upload the clip. (For anyone keeping track, today is the third anniversary of Kate Stelnick’s appearances on Good Morning America and the Tony Danza show.)

update A video clip of the Blimpy Burger challenge segment has been uploaded.

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Bodybuilder Isabelle Turell has uploaded a video of her describing the contents of a full grocery cart to http://youtube.com/watch?v=ai_T8DjUyCY She estimates the food will last her 2 or 3 days. Ms. Turell comments on the video in this Muscular Development thread and says she has considered entering an eating contest In this musclemayhem thread:

Now one another note… If I to a resturant like for example I went to Cheesecake Factory. I order the big sampler appetizer. i eat the whole thing myself. THe waiter will be like thats alot of food, mentally i am thinking “yeah and your piont is??” I am a paying customer, don’t question me on what I order. I must have ate that thing up in 10 minutes. I then order the big filet mignon and of course cheesecake not 1 but maybe 3 cheesecake to nibble here and there. But that once in a while.

I have ben tempted to enter these food eating contest, but I can’t see myself stuffing face like some of those people. But i would be kinda of fun to try. I would probably pass out or something

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According to this 2003 article link fixed Jan 12, 2015 in the Washington Times, Stacey Dales might be the ESPN sideline reporter with the best background for next year’s Nathan’s finals broadcast:

Dales-Schuman is at home behind both a microphone – she cut her promos flawlessly – and a dinner plate. Tough, double-session practices have burned off the calories and she works out on her own, but she still is one of those high-metabolism types who can live on the buffet line and stay maddeningly thin. Some mayonnaise with that? Absolutely. She proceeded to liberally apply the stuff, with apparent glee, from a squeeze bottle. “I’m a hog,” she said while chomping on a giant turkey hoagie.

“She eats like a madwoman,” said Indiana Fever coach Nell Fortner, who worked with Dales-Schuman in the studio during ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is one of many who marvels at her appetite. “It’s hilarious. There was food all over the desk. Then with 20 seconds to go before we went on, it’s, like, clear the desk. I tell her she eats like a cow. She grazes all day long.”

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The new poll asks your opinion on what contests, if any, should immersing food in water be allowed.

In other dunking/eating news, the Deseret News has an article about Stanford basketball player Michelle Harrison, whose big appetite has not impeded her reported ability to dunk:

At the games Harrison is known as “Snacks,” or “that girl from Utah,” by most of the other players and staff. Her nickname was given to her by Abi Olajuwon — daughter of NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon — after a group of players ate at Applebee’s and Michelle ate twice as much as anyone else.

“She ate it all,” said Olajuwon, who is headed to college at Oklahoma. “She didn’t have a take-out container or anything.”

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Natsuko “Gal” Sone is not the only big eating Japanese female distance runner. VAAM-power.com has an interview (originally from the Japan Times) with Naoko Takahashi, the women’s marathon champion in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in which the gold medalist describes her eating habits:

Mostly Japanese food, even in the States. I don’t think in terms of calories, we just tell the cook what we want to eat. I want to eat this, that, meat, and we just eat whatever as much as we want. I can eat 50 pieces of sushi in one sitting. With meat I can eat a two-kg (4.5 lb or 72 oz.) steak.

VAAM is an energy drink made with hornet juice that Ms. Takahashi credits with reducing muscle fatigue.

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Justin Mih might have a female competitive eating counterpart in the Harvard community. The Harvard Crimson reports that Gretchen Salyer, a 2005 graduate, won the garlicky greens eating contest at b.good in Cambridge by eating 2.73 pounds of vegetables in 5 minutes, defeating last year’s champion John Pepper. Ms. Salyer is a former member of the Harvard/Radcliffe crew team.

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In this AP article from November, Jaqueline Mariash, who hopes to make the US triathlon team in the 2008 Olympics, explains how she decreased her race times by radically increasing the amount she eats.

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WJZ has an article and video of the Baltimore Pancake Eating Contest at Pete’s Grill. The year of the college student in competitive eating has apparently extended to non-IFOCE events, as Johns Hopkins students Johnny Chang and Emma Gregory won the men’s and women’s divisions. Emma Gregory is also a member of the Johns Hopkins swimming team.

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The Elk River (Minnesota) Star has a profile of Jenny Olson who is not only a volleyball star, but also a pudding eating champion, consuming 16 plates of pudding in 3 minutes.

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In this blog entry, collegiate bodybuilder Britt Miller describes her meals on a trip to Las Vegas, which included 24 ounce prime ribs with all the trimmings and frequent trips to the buffets.

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From the February 2, 2004 The Daily Texan (UTexas school paper) Defensive Stopper by Elizabeth McGarr:

“She [Kala Bowers] eats more than anybody I’ve ever been around,” Schreiber said. “Pretty much every two or three hours, she has to have a meal. Before practice, she’ll eat a buffet meal, then she’ll eat after practice, then she’ll eat again that night.

“At halftime, she’ll eat a Power Bar or something. In the four hours between pre-game and game time, she’ll go get McDonald’s because she’ll just get so hungry.”

You wouldn’t know it to look at Bowers’ trim six-foot-two-inch frame.

“I can eat probably all day, every day,” she admitted. “I don’t know what it is – I guess high metabolism – but I love to eat. Make any bet with me about food, and I’m going to be excited.”

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