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New York Post
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
New Jersey woman speaks out after being disqualified from Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
The New Jersey woman who was disqualified from Friday's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest has broken her silence on the possibly unprecedented ruling. Madison Barone, 24, of Manville, New Jersey, was able to compete in this year's edition of the contest — won by Miki Sudo for the 11th time — due to finishing second at a qualifier. But her moment in the spotlight did not go as planned, as she couldn't keep down the nine hot dogs she ate and vomited in a trash can in plain sight, which is a rule violation. Advertisement 3 The official results of the Women's Hot Dog Eating Contest. 'As soon as I got off the stage and everything came up, it wasn't even like I was sick,'' Barone told USA Today. 'It was more of force. It was more of my body just letting it go. 'And I was like, 'Oh, man, everybody saw that. Now I'm disqualified.'' Advertisement It's potentially the first time a competitor has been disqualified from the annual Fourth of July event in Coney Island, as George Shea, the contest's announcer since 1991, said he's unaware of a previous occurrence. 'Ms. Barone experienced urges contrary to swallowing after the contest but before the conclusion of presentations and the awarding of places,' Sam Barclay, the director of operations at Major League Eating — which runs the hot dog contest — told USA Today. 'By Major League Eating rules, urges contrary to swallowing before the conclusion of the event, including presentations and the awarding of prizes, results in a DQ.' 3 The competitors from the women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in action on July 4, 2025. Paul Martinka 3 Miki Sudo wins the women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025. Paul Martinka Advertisement Barone was not embarrassed by the outcome, she told the outlet. But she is hoping for a chance at redemption next summer. 'If I do [return], it's going to be the biggest comeback ever,' she told USA Today.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest competitor disqualified for rules violation
The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest this year came with a footnote. One of the eaters was disqualified. The women's standings shown on a graphic on the event organizer's social media site listed 'Madison Barone (DQ).'' She's not listed in the final results distributed by Major League Eating, which runs the contest. Advertisement So what happened? "Ms. Barone experienced urges contrary to swallowing after the contest but before the conclusion of presentations and the awarding of places," said Sam Barclay, director of operations at Major League Eating,. "By Major League Eating rules, urges contrary to swallowing before the conclusion of the event, including presentations and the awarding of prizes, results in a DQ." 'Urges contrary to swallowing' translates to getting sick. Barone, a 24-year-old from Manville, New Jersey, did not immediately respond to an interview request sent by email. George Shea, who has served as the contest announcer since 1991, said he was unaware of any such incident taking place at the time. And he was averse to using graphic language to characterize what took place. Advertisement "We will only say urges contrary to swallowing.'' Shea told USA TODAY Sports. "We never utter other words. It is like saying Voldemort." Miki Sudo won the women's competition with 33 hot dogs and buns during the 10-minute contest. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Nathan's hot dog contest competitor disqualified: Here's why
Malay Mail
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
Ravenous return: Fast-chewing Chestnut wins July 4th hot dog contest
NEW YORK, July 5 — Competitive eater Joey Chestnut recaptured his title at the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest yesterday in Brooklyn, downing 70.5 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes in the July 4th holiday classic. The 41-year-old American missed last year's event after signing a deal with Impossible Foods, whose plant-based products include hot dogs, but he was allowed to enter this year and made his Coney Island comeback a triumphant one. Chestnut won by 24 hot dogs over last year's winner, Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago, but the maestro of mastication could not break his own record of 76 hot dogs that he consumed in 2021. It marked the 17th time Chestnut claimed the 'Mustard Belt' symbolic of supremacy in the gastronomic showdown and his ninth triumph in 10 years. 'Oh my gosh, I was nervous,' Chestnut told event telecaster ESPN after his victory. 'First couple of hot dogs, I was fumbling a little bit, but I found a pretty good rhythm.' Chestnut said that despite his blowout triumph, he was hoping to make a better show of challenging his record consumption total. 'My goal was 70 to 77,' he said. 'I really wanted a little bit more. There's next year and I'm just happy I'm here.' On the women's side, American Miki Sudo won by eating 33 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, her 11th victory in the past 12 years, with American Michelle Lesco second on 22.75 dogs and buns. Sudo, who set the women's record of 51 last year, did not compete in 2021 while pregnant, with Lesco winning that year. — AFP
The Guardian
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Hot diggity dog: Joey Chestnut regains title in New York hotdog eating contest
Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut reclaimed his title at the annual Nathan's Fourth of July hotdog eating contest on Friday, cementing his status as the undisputed all-time champion of hotdog consumption. A rerun of Jaws was the blockbuster attraction in Coney Island this Fourth of July holiday, but not the classic Steven Spielberg movie enjoying a new lease of life on the 50th anniversary of its release. The jaws here belong to Chestnut, a leviathan in the world of competitive eating that has grown as a sporting spectacle to the point where it is a regular fixture on ESPN. Chestnut, 41, consumed 70 1/2 hotdogs and buns in 10 minutes, falling short of his record of 76 wieners and buns set in 2021. It marked the 17th win in 20 appearances for Chestnut at the internationally televised competition. In the women's division, defending champion Miki Sudo of Tampa, Florida, won her 11th title, downing 33 dogs, besting a dozen competitors. Last year, she ate a record 51 links. Enthusiasts of the annual Nathan's Fourth of July hotdog eating contest will recall that Chestnut, whose nickname is Jaws, was controversially booted from the 2024 iteration of the event he had dominated for the best part of two decades for signing a deal to promote a rival brand of plant-based wieners. It was, as the event's impresario, George Shea, declared at the time with trademark grandeur, the equivalent of Michael Jordan telling Nike – purveyors of his lucrative Air Jordan line of sneakers – that he wanted to rep for Adidas too. This year, to the relief of many, Jaws returned to the fold after serving a year's suspension. On Friday, the world record holder, with 83 dogs and buns scoffed in a single 10-minute period in an unrelated Netflix special in September 2024, was the star attraction once again in pursuit of his 17th Mustard Belt. 'I'm thrilled to be returning,' Chestnut, 41, said in a post on X before the competition. 'This event means the world to me. It's a cherished tradition, a celebration of American culture, and a huge part of my life.' Referring to the controversy that caused his exclusion, he was circumspect. 'While I have and continue to partner with a variety of companies, including some in the plant-based space, those relationships were never a conflict with my love for hotdogs. To be clear: Nathan's is the only hotdog company I've ever worked with,' he wrote. The straw-hatted Shea, mastermind of an event that draws tens of thousands to New York every year, and a television audience estimated to have grown to 2 million since the first contest in 1972, welcomed the return of the king. 'Last year we got as big a crowd as ever, more media than ever, and we had a fantastic contest that was actually more competitive because Joey has been so dominant,' he told the Guardian. 'That said, there's definitely more excitement now he's back. We and everybody, fans included, are very excited and looking forward to the Fourth, and his entrance into the arena will be triumphant and explosive.' Shea, whose colourful and bombastic introductions of the competitors are as much a part of the spectacle as the mouth-stuffing element that follows, said he had been working for weeks on how he will proclaim Chestnut's homecoming. 'It's not his nickname that makes him who he is, it's his performance that has defined him, and I believe that's been very significantly elevated by the introductions that I do of him as a larger-than-life figure,' said Shea, a New York-based public relations executive who says working the Fourth of July event is his 'annual treat to myself'. 'I try to create a mix that includes straight and grand introductions that describe what these people are doing on the eating circuit, with a mix of funny, absurd and poetic, and then epic when you get to Joey.' Shea admitted it would be hard to top his 2015 introduction, a fire and brimstone speech that somewhat melodramatically hailed Chestnut as an almost otherworldly being: 'A comet blazes to herald his arrival, and his victory shall be transcribed into every language known to history, including Klingon,' he pronounced. 'The bratwurst, and pierogi, and Hooters chicken wing eating champion of the world, eight-time Nathan's Famous hotdog eating champion of the world, the No 1 eater in the world, I give you America itself, Joey Chestnut.' The expectation for Friday, at least in betting circles, was that Chestnut would come storming back to recapture his crown from last year's winner, Patrick 'Deep Dish' Bertoletti, and a strong field of Major League Eating characters, perhaps even by topping his own event record, set in 2021, of 76 hotdogs. But the real winner, Shea said, was the sport of competitive eating itself. 'We've been talking, there was a lot of back-and-forth, and people had different perspectives, different opinions, different everything, but everybody wanted this to happen. We stayed at it, and we finally came together,' he said. 'What happened was unfortunate, it was disappointing not to have Joey there, but in the big picture it further elevated the contest, and you know, we're very conscious of that all the time.'
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
Sudo Wins Her 11th N.Y. Hot Dog Eating Contest
News from Japan World Jul 5, 2025 16:22 (JST) New York, July 4 (Jiji Press)--Miki Sudo won the women's title at the Nathan's Famous annual hot dog eating contest in New York on Friday, her 11th victory. At the event held in Coney Island on Independence Day, the 39-year-old competitive eater from Florida downed 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes, overwhelming the second-place finisher who ate 22 and three-quarters. She could not break her own world record of 51 set last year. The venue was packed with spectators in the strong sunlight. After the competition, she reflected on her performance and said she might have been out of practice. She then expressed her enthusiasm by saying that she will hone her techniques and eat more at next year's contest. In the men's division, Joey Chestnut, 41, won his 17th title by scarfing down 70 and a half hot dogs in 10 minutes, leaving the other participants far behind. This was his first win in two years after skipping last year's event. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
