In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged Wednesday as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time titlist Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing but repulsive triumph. Chestnut, the American hope in the annual Fourth of July competition, broke his own world record by swallowing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes - a staggering one every 10.9 seconds before a screaming crowd in Coney Island. 'If I needed to eat another one right now, I could,' the 23-year-old Californian boasted after receiving the mustard yellow belt emblematic of hot dog eating supremacy.
Chestnut won against Kobayashi, the Japanese eating machine who recently had a wisdom tooth extracted and received chiropractic treatment due to a sore jaw. But Kobayashi, who won every Nathan's hot dog competition since 2001 showed no ill effects as he stayed with Chestnut frank-for-frank until the very end of the 12-minute competition. But once the contest ended, Kobayashi vomited, leading to a deduction from his final total. He finished with 63 hot dogs and buns eaten - still his best performance ever.
His previous high in the annual competition was 53½. The all-time record before Wednesday's remarkable contest was Chestnut's 59½, set just last month. Competitors receive credit for anything in their mouths at the 12-minute mark, provided they can swallow it. 'Obviously, the last bit exited his mouth quite dramatically,' said Rich Shea of the International Federation of Competitive Eating.
Kobayashi, through a translator, promised to return for the 2008 event. Chestnut's victory ended Japan's long dominance of the contest. The only previous non-Japanese winner since 1996 was New Jersey's Steve Keiner in 1999. Third place this year went to another American, Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago, with 49.
'This title's been held by Kobayashi for six years, so it's about time it came home,' said Chestnut, holding an American flag in his arms. I knew going into this contest that Kobayashi was going to give 100 percent.'
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Pointless world-records mixed with idiotic nationalism - brilliant!
Record Breakers
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Life Is A Rollercoaster
Friday July 27, 2007
Rodriguez said: "I was the undisputed king of rollercoasters for 30 years and I'm not going to watch these German challengers take my crown."
Under the rules, the American is able to tot up five minutes respite for every full hour ridden.
This is so he can change clothes, shower, have a hot meal and go onto the Big Dipper for night riding.Happy coastering!
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the 'undisputed king of rollercoasters for 30 years'??? haha
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Motorist admits driving at 172mph
The speed is thought to be the highest recorded in the UK for such an offence. Brady also denied a further charge of aggravated vehicle taking.
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'King tooth' bites into new world record
August 30, 2007
The feat is expected to be recognised by Guinness World Records two to three weeks after verification of the data, said Rathakrishnan's manager, Anna Chidambar. "I don't know what toothpaste he uses but I am sure a lot companies will be looking to endorse their products," said cabinet minister Maximus Ongkili, a Cabinet minister.
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Seventy-one surfers at Muizenberg could well have cruised their way into the record books by riding a single wave at the same time, smashing last year's world record of 44 - a figure most of them helped thrash five times on Sunday.
More than 1 500 people gathered on the beach to enjoy the spectacle of 320 surfers trying to share a wave in the Earthwave Global Surf Challenge, one of seven events happening worldwide to raise awareness about global warming.
An ecstatic Dene Botha, owner of the Kahuna Surfing Academy which masterminded the global challenge and organised the South African leg, said it was "explosive" when the local surfers managed to break the record "five spectacular times over".
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Stone me! It's a new pebble record
Monday, October 1, 2007
"I actually threw 40 stones that day, but that was the first skip that I threw," Byars told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which confirmed the record with Guinness officials. The old record was set in 2002.
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Germany's leaning tower knocks famed Pisa out of the record books
5th November 2007
The church was built in middle of the 13th century but a 90ft tower was added in 1450. The tower was built on wooden foundations and the combination of the oak wood foundations and wet soil has caused the tower to slowly lean to one side over the years. Several attempts to stop the tower from leaning any further have been made since 1982, and it was eventually stabilised in 1996. The church is still in use and also offers guided tours but church officials are appealing for donations to help maintain the building.
Snakes-in-a-bath record smashed!
Another day, another bizarre world record for Jackie Bibby, the 'Texas Snake Man.' Bibby spent about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes on Monday, fully clothed, shattering his own record by 12 snakes just in time for Guinness World Records Day, which is on Thursday. A Guinness official certified the record, in Dublin, Texas.
The snakes crawled under his arms, between his legs and anywhere else they could slither, Bibby said. None bit him. 'They can go wherever they want as long as they don't start biting,' Bibby said. 'The key to not biting is for me to stay still. Rapid movement scares a rattlesnake. If you move real slow and gentle, that doesn't seem to bother them.'
Bibby sat in the dry bath with a pillow behind him, wearing regular clothing. The snakes were not defanged and still contained their venom, he said. The clear bathtub was specially made several years ago for Bibby by the Guinness people for a televised segment. He has used it for subsequent attempts at the record for sitting in a tub with snakes. 'I have set several world records in that bathtub,' Bibby said.
Last year he set a Guinness-certified record by holding 10 rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth at once. He said he hopes to break that record on Tuesday by squeezing in an 11th.
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everybody needs a hobby!
Ear strength man not eary enough
November 8, 2007
'Unfortunately Manjit was not able to move the bus far enough on this occasion,' Guinness World Records spokeswoman Amarilla Espinoza said. 'He only managed to pull it around five metres (16ft). He's very disappointed, but that's the nature of record-breaking.'
Earlier this year, Mr Singh, from Leicester, succeeded in pulling a passenger aircraft weighing 7.4 tonnes a distance of 3.4 metres (11ft) using his ears. He already holds several other records, including one for pulling a double-decker bus with his hair, and another for lifting 85kg (187lb) with his ears.
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Dedication's what you need!
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Don't sneeze! Man builds record-breaking 25ft house of cards
By CLAIRE BATES
7th December 2007
Berg said the combined weight of the cards and his special grid structures helped hold his constructions in place. His latest creation, which took five weeks to build, stands at 25ft 9inches tall and was made from 1,800 decks of playing cards. It was limited only by the height of the building he was working in. While Berg's remarkable feats may take unyielding concentration and patience he insists his work is highly rewarding.
"I like what I do. This is no kind of torture or boredom for me," he said. "In my lifetime, cardstacking has gone from a hobby to an obsession to a livelihood."
Berg first started building card houses at the age of eight. He broke the Guinness World Record for the World's Tallest House of Cards in 1992 at the age of seventeen, with a tower fourteen feet, six inches tall. When asked recently if he could build a taller structure, perhaps even 100ft high, he was undaunted. "You bet!" he said.
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