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Joey Chestnut returning to Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest aft 2024 lack
It's clip for the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, a Fourth of July contented successful New York City. The 2025 contention kicks disconnected this greeting astatine Surf and Stillwell avenues successful Coney Island, Brooklyn.
This year, a full of 15 men and 13 women are competing for the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt and $20,000 currency prize. CLICK HERE to conscionable the competitors.
The women's tract starts astatine 11 a.m., followed by the men astatine 12:30 p.m. CLICK HERE for however to watch.
Joey Chestnut wants to triumph backmost his belt
Joey Chestnut is looking to triumph backmost his Mustard Belt successful the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.
CBS News New York
Joey Chestnut is hoping to signifier a comeback aft missing past year's contest. He inactive holds the all-time grounds of 76 blistery dogs and buns successful 10 minutes, which helium acceptable successful 2021.
Chestnut had been the reigning 16-time champion earlier helium was banned past twelvemonth due to the fact that of a concern with Impossible Foods, a rival institution that makes plant-based blistery dogs.
With the tract wide open, Patrick Betoletti earned his archetypal victory with 58 blistery dogs and buns. On the women's side, reigning champion Miki Sudo earned her 10th triumph and acceptable a satellite grounds with 51 blistery dogs and buns.
"Part of maine wishes [Bertoletti] was a jerk. It would motivate maine harder, but I emotion him," Chestnut said during Thursday's weigh-in. "But I wanna win. I wanna propulsion for a record, truthful I kinda consciousness atrocious for him. 'Cause I'm gonna driblet the hammer, and he's gonna get annihilated."
"It felt large past year. I ne'er thought I'd ever triumph Nathan's, the contest, but it didn't consciousness implicit without Joey there, truthful he's backmost this twelvemonth and it's better," said Bertoletti.
Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest rules
The yearly contented dates backmost to 1916 astatine Nathan's flagship determination successful Coney Island.
Competitors person 10 minutes to devour arsenic galore blistery dogs and buns arsenic they can. Utensils and condiments are not allowed, but h2o is provided and different non-alcoholic beverages are permitted.
Both the blistery canine and the bun indispensable beryllium swallowed for it to count, but competitors whitethorn interruption up the blistery dogs with their hands oregon abstracted them from the buns. They tin besides dunk the buns successful a beverage for a maximum of 5 seconds.
If a rival throws up, they are disqualified.
Renee Anderson is simply a integer shaper astatine CBS New York, wherever she covers breaking quality and different section stories. Before joining the squad successful 2016, Renee worked astatine WMUR-TV.
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