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Joey Chestnut loses asparagus eating crown

Joey Chestnut loses asparagus eating crown

The world’s number one competitive eater took a heavy blow this weekend when he was beaten at one of his most successful events. Top gurgitator Joey Chestnut has triumphed at the World Deep-Fried Asparagus Eating Championships seven times since he first competed in 2005. The eating champ also holds the world record for largest amount [...]

Kiwi sets mobile phone throwing record

A 20-year-old student and javelin chucker from New Zealand has set a new world record for throwing a mobile phone. Ben Langton Burnell from Manawatu is a five times champion javelin thrower and now unofficial world record mobile phone flinger. The promising young athlete went against his coach’s wishes and accepted the challenge of breaking [...]

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Chestnut cleans up at the Orlando Chili Cook-off

Joey Chestnut showed everyone why he’s still the world’s number one competitive eater at today’s Orlando Chili Cook-off world chili-eating challenge. The champion gurgitator saw off stiff competition from some of the biggest names in competitive eating to steal first place and $1,750 in prize money at this inaugural event. Once the jaws had stopped [...]

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Mr Methane to attend the inaugural World Fart Championships in Finland

The world’s one and only performing flatulist, Mr Methane will be jetting off to sunny Finland this summer to take part in the first ever World Fart Championships. The arse-trumpeting contest will take place in Utajärvi on 13th July 2013 and Mr Methane has been invited to perform his spectacular sphincter-twitching show for all international [...]

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Chestnut takes tamale eating record

There is simply no stopping the world’s number one gurgitator, Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut. Major League Eating’s highest ranked competitive eater stormed to victory today at the World Tamale Eating Championships in Lewisville, Texas. Chestnut gorged himself on an incredible 102 tamales in just 12 minutes, setting a brand new world record and securing the $1,500 [...]

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This weekend saw the annual World Toe Wrestling Championships in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Arch rivals Alan “Nasty” Nash and Paul “Predatoe” Beech were amongst the many male and female wrestlers who attended this year’s championships at the Bentley Brook Inn on Saturday. The pair of pedi-pugilists have battled each other for the title for the past [...]

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Finnish pair win wife carrying championship fourth year on the run

Finnish wife carrying team Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen are proving themselves unstoppable as they claim a fourth victory at the 20th annual Wife Carrying World Championships held in the town of Sonkajärvi, Finland. The pair, who are not husband and wife, completed the 250m course in the fastest time beating off stiff competition from [...]

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Chestnut does it again!

The world’s top competitive eater Joey Chestnut has won the world hot dog eating championships for a sixth year in a row. Chestnut shovelled a total of 68 hot dogs and buns down his cake-hole in ten minutes in order to retain the Mustard Belt at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating [...]

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Top-ranked gurgitator Timothy ‘Eater X’ Janus has a new world record under his belt, for the world’s longest burp. Janus, from New York is currently the third best competitive eater on Major League Eating’s books. He already holds the records for speed-eating burritos, sushi, noodles, tamales and tiramisu, and now the competitive eating star has [...]

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Unofficial cheese-roll in Gloucester

Up to a thousand people attended an unofficial cheese-rolling event on Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire this weekend. The world famous cheese-rolling event has taken place on Cooper’s Hill for around the past 200 years. In recent years the bizarre race, where a double-Gloucester cheese is rolled down a hill and dozens of competitors race down after [...]

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