Coney Island hot dog contest adds women's pigout

Mercury news ^ | 7/2/11 | Verena Dobnik - Associated Press

[NormsRevenge]

NEW YORK -- This year's Fourth of July race to stuff your face with hot dogs has a new women-only pigout.

"Serena Williams didn't have to beat Roger Federer to win the Wimbledon title, and we don't think Sonya Thomas should have to beat Joey Chestnut," said master of ceremonies George Shea.

Thomas, known as The Black Widow of competitive eating, set a women's world record July 4, 2009, by stuffing 41 hot dogs into her 105-pound frame in 10 minutes.

Thomas and nine other women will compete Monday on Coney Island just before the men's stomach-churning Nathan's Famous hot dog feast, which this year again features world champion Chestnut, nicknamed Jaws. The 27-year-old from San Jose, Calif., ate his way to a fourth consecutive championship last year by downing 54 dogs for the $20,000 purse.

[NormsRevenge]

I could down 5 or 6 in 10 minutes.. with beer,, maybe 8 or 9..

[trumandogz]

I’m betting on Monica Lewinsky

[knarf]

I'm having a hard time "digesting" THIS one (of many on a photo page)

This little girl has apparently been doing this a while, judging from the many photo's of her.

They ALL show a skinny girl (apparently the same day) with a trophy and NO SIGN of having eaten enough hotdogs that would fill an inflated basketball.

OK, she pukes them out ... but still ....

[ErnBatavia]

I could maybe get into a second one of these.....just perhaps.

I had just one yesterday for lunch, and I didn't need to eat for the rest of the day -- covered all the major food groups.

[loungitude]

What contest did the other woman in the photo win?

[Realman30]

Females stuffing their mouths with food. ? ? How disgusting.

[Teacher317]

One of the few sports where women can compete with men (Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee, etc), and these idiots segregate the genders, for no apparent reason.

Juliet lee

Sonya Thomas

You do not need a big full belly to be great at competitive eating.

[Secret Agent Man]

I bet they came up faster than they went down.

[NucSubs]

“To me, this excitement is similar to when women were given the right to vote,” says challenger Larell Marie Mele, a 133-pounder from Long Pond, Pa.”

Yeah...its just like that...

[Brett66]

Can’t-resist-weiner-joke......

[tal hajus]

True. Amarillo has a restaurant that serves a massive steak with all the trimmings. If you can get it all down in a given period of time it’s free. I saw a tv show about it and one of the winners was a short,skinny guy.