American Joey Chestnut retained his Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest title in 2008, beating Japanese arch rival Takeru Kobayashi after a close fight.
Each of them consumed 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes and forced the game into extra time, with Chestnut claiming the final victory after a five-dog playoff.
Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest is arguably the world’s most famous competitive eating contest. The competition is held annually on US’ Independence Day (July 4) in Coney Island, New York, since 1916.
Takeru Kobayashi is a legend in the contest, winning it for six times in a role (2001-2006) before Joey Chestnut, nicknamed the “Jaws”, claimed the title in 2007 and successfully defending it in 2008.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a world record in the men’s 100m, clocking 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix meeting at Icahn Stadium in New York on Saturday (May 31).
Bolt bettered the mark of 9.74s set by countryman Asafa Powell last September.
Usain Bolt with his proud record (Image from
Xinhuanet)
I could still remember the days when people said that breaking the 9.80s barrier was impossible without drugs… but now it seems like 9.6x secs is something achievable.
Congrats Bolt, good job, and a fitting name.
Group of people has frozen themselves simultaneously for 4 minutes at Kuala Lumpur’s Pavilion shopping centre on April 13, 2008, at 3.35pm.
Inspired by Improv Everywhere’s Frozen Grand Central, similar pranks were performed in London, Paris and other cities where groups of people would pause themselves at the same period of time at a specific location. It’s hard to explain in words… watch the videos and you would probably understand what I mean.
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15 contestants took part in the Bridezilla-Ultimate Cake Eating Contest in Times Square, NYC, on June 12. The event kicked off the 4th season of reality show Bridezillas, with the winner walking away with the USD25,000 cash prize.
