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Chestnut regains title at rib eating contest

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut masticated his way to victory last night at the World Rib Eating Championships held in Nevada.
The eating contest is part of the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off food festival held every year in Victorian Square, Sparks, Nevada. Chestnut previously took the title for this event back in 2008 when he [...]

Pat Bertoletti sets testicle eating record

Competitive eater Pat Bertoletti set a new record this weekend for eating deep fried bull’s gonads.
Some of competitive eating’s top names turned out for the Isle Black Hawk Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating World Championship in Colorado on Saturday. The ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters’ are sliced and deep fried bull’s testicles and Bertoletti managed to consume an [...]

The 2010 World Bog Snorkelling Championships

Around 140 people from right across Europe travelled to the muddy Waen Rhydd Peat Bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales this weekend to compete in the 25th annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships.
Snorkellers are encouraged to wear fancy dress outfits and are permitted to use goggles, facemasks and flippers but they are prohibited from using any [...]

World Gravy Wrestling Championships 2010

Today saw the 4th Annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships held in Lancashire.
Hundreds of spectators and the country’s press gathered at the Rose ‘n’ Bowl pub in Stacksteads near Rossendale to witness what is fast becoming one of the North West’s premiere weird sporting events.
Over 1,000 litres of gravy were produced for the tournament which pits [...]

Kobayashi cleans up at Canadian pizza eating contest

Takeru Kobayashi chomped his way to victory this weekend at the Pie Pizza Eating Competition held in Ontario.
This was the first eating event Kobayashi has taken part in since the drama at this year’s Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest when the former world champion was arrested after he invaded the stage.
The Japanese [...]

Pat Bertoletti sets new Mars Bar eating record

Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus were all at the San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday to compete in the Red Faction Mars Bar Eating Championship.
The event was organised by video game company THQ and sanctioned by Major League Eating. THQ were promoting the forthcoming release of their new game, Red Faction: Armageddon which is [...]

World Snail Racing Championships 2010

This weekend saw the 2010 World Snail Racing Championships held in Norfolk.
The event takes place every year as part of the Congham Church Fete, hundreds of competitors gather from all over the globe to pit their molluscs against each other and see which is fastest. The snails are raced on a circular course with a [...]

Wisconsin Cricket Spitting Contest

Wednesday saw the annual cricket spitting contest held at the Jefferson County Fair in Wisconsin.
Dozens of competitors stepped up to take part in the event where a dead, frozen insect is spat from the mouth and the person who spits the bug the greatest distance wins a prize.
This year the gold was taken by Mike [...]

Kobayashi released from jail

Takeru Kobayashi was released from custody earlier today following his arrest yesterday during Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest held at Coney Island.
The six time champ of the event was charged with four counts including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstruction of property and trespassing, but his lawyer says it was all [...]

Kobayashi arrested

The former champion of the Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, Takeru Kobayashi was arrested and taken into police custody immediately after the winner was announced.
Kobayashi was absent from the contest due to a contract dispute with the International Federation of Competitive Eating, but he was in the crowd watching as his arch-rival [...]

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A woman in Texas says she was bitten by the legendary goat-sucker.
Staysha Henderson described the creature which attacked her as a skinny, malnourished grey dog-like animal. Henderson says she found the beast lurking in her camper and initially though it was a thirsty dog, but when she offered the animal some water it scratched her [...]

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