- Title: USA: HOT DOG EATING CHAMPIONSHIP
- Date: 4th July 2005
- Summary: (AMERICA)CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK, USA (JULY 04, 2005) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF CROWD WAITING FOR CONTEST TO BEGIN (3 SHOTS) 0.17 2. CONTESTANTS ARRIVING 0.25 3. LV MAN IN HOT DOG COSTUME DANCING AND CHEERING 0.28 4. SLV TAKERU KOBAYASHI BEING CARRIED TO THE STAGE, SHOWING HIS STOMACH 0.34 5. CU HOT DOGS ON PLATE WAITING FOR START OF CONTEST 0.37 6. PAN CONTESTANTS DURING COUNT-DOWN TO START 1.10 7. PAN CONTESTANTS EATING HOT DOGS (2 SHOTS) 1.25 8. COUNTDOWN TO END OF CONTEST, KOBAYASHI WITH WOMAN HOLDING SCORE CARD OF 49 ABOVE HIM 1.37 9. LV CROWDS CHEERING 1.41 10. SV TAKERU KOBAYASHI, SONYA THOMAS AND JOEY CHESTNUT HOLDING TROPHY 1.48 11. SV CHAMPION KOBAYASHI SHOWING HIS TROPHY TO PRESS 1.54 12. MCU (Japanese), 5-TIME WINNER OF JULY FOURTH INTERNATIONAL HOT DOG EATING CONTEST, TAKERU KOBAYASHI SAYING: "I ate 49 hot dogs. This year was a bit tougher than last year so I want to come back and do it again next year to break my record." 2.04 13. SV KOBAYASHI WITH MEDIA 2.10 14. MCU (English), 2ND PLACE WINNER, SONYA THOMAS, SAYING: "I want to become number one, not number two. I don't like that! but you know man and women, the sexes don't make a difference in this eating contest. Size and age doesn't matter." 2.22 15. FAMOUS HOT DOG EATING CONTEST LOGO 2.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK, USA
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Defending champion retains his crown in New York's
Internation Hot Dog Eating championship.
As America celebrates its most patriotic
day---Independence Day; New York's fast food chain Nathan's
marked the fourth of July with its annual Coney Island
ritual: Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot
Dog Eating Contest.
The flagship restaurant has reportedly staged the
contest every year since 1916.
Hundreds of people came to support the professional
gurgitators under the watchful eyes of a heavy police
presence.
Sixteen 'gustatory athletes' from the US, Japan and
Great Britain participated in this year's 'all you can eat'
frankfest.
Among them, 26 year old World Champion Hot Dog Eater,
Takeru Kobayashi who holds a record of 53 and a half hot
dogs and buns in 12 minutes. The native of Nagano, Japan,
who weighs just 144 pounds has become the star of the
contest and enjoys many fans and supporters.
The rules of the game are straightforward: contenders
have to eat as many hot dogs as possible in exactly 12
minutes.
For the fifth year in a row, Kobayashi won it again and
was crowned champion with 49 hot dogs:
"I ate 49 hot dogs. But this year was a bit tougher than
last year so I want to come back and do it again next year
to break my record," Kobayashi said.
The Japanese have beaten all international competitors in
recent years, and Kobayashi's latest win means the coveted
Mustard Yellow Belt will return to Japan for the ninth year
straight.
American Sonya Thomas came in second place with 37 hot dogs. She
be
came America's record holder for the second
time running.
The 37 year old native of Virginia says the size, age
and sex of the competitive eaters does not make any
difference in this contest.
"I want to become number one, not number two. I don't
like that! but you know man and women, the sexes don't make
a difference in this eating contest. Size and age doesn't
matter," said Thomas, claiming that eating victory was all
in the mind.
The contest host cooked seven thousand hot dogs for the
contest. The fast-food chain is donating 10,000 to New
York's City Harvest, a food rescue program.
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