US Hot Dogs Wrap
AP-APTN-0930: US Hot Dogs Wrap
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
STORY:US Hot Dogs Wrap- REPLAY "Jaws" scoops fifth contest in a row, "Black Widow" wins
LENGTH: 01:59
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TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/AP PHOTOS
STORY NUMBER: 695855
DATELINE: New York - 4 July 2011
LENGTH: 01:59
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1. UPSOUND Countdown to beginning of hot dog eating competition, zoom in to competitive eater Joey Chestnut eating hot dogs
2. Wide of competition
3. Mid of eventual runner-up Patrick Bertoletti eating
4. Countdown to end of competition, zoom out from Chestnut raising fist and then leaning forward on table
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, winner of 2011 Nathan's Famous 4th July international hot dog eating contest
"This is the biggest contest in the world as far as competitive eating goes. If you're not here on the 4th of July, if you're a competitive eater, you're not a competitive eater.
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6. Various STILLS showing Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi eating 69 Nathan's hot dogs in 10 minutes during an unofficial contest
7. STILL showing Kobayashi celebrating
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8. Start of women's competition, zoom in to Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas eating hot dogs ++PART MUTE++
9. Thomas and Chestnut with their winner's belts ++MUTE++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas, winner of 2011 Nathan's Famous 4th July international hot dog eating contest:
"Always my dream about the champion event... nine years I've been doing this competition I never had a chance for first place."
11. Korean-born Thomas holding her winner's trophy, man behind her holding up her pink winner's belt ++PART MUTE++
STORYLINE
Joey Chestnut wolfed down 62 hot dogs on Monday to win his fifth consecutive Fourth of July hot dog eating contest at New York's Coney Island, the equivalent of about 20-thousand calories in 10 minutes.
It wasn't a personal best for the 27-year-old, nicknamed "Jaws", but it was enough to out-eat second-place finisher Patrick Bertoletti by nine wieners.
Chestnut, of San Jose, California, won 10-thousand US dollars and the coveted mustard-yellow belt.
Bertoletti, of Chicago, won five-thousand dollars and third-place contestant Tim Janus won two and a half thousand dollars.
Chestnut's chief rival, Takeru Kobayashi, stayed away from the contest, instead staging a separate competition on a New York rooftop where he ate 69 dogs in 10 minutes, which would have been a world record.
The slim Japanese champ, nicknamed the "Tsunami", held the record for hot dog eating from 2001 to 2007.
After refusing to sign an exclusive contract with Major League Eating, the fast-food equivalent of the National Football League, he was banned from the competition last year.
He showed up anyway, wearing a T-shirt that said "Free Kobi", rushed the stage and was arrested.
Charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstruction of property and trespassing were later dropped.
This year, for the first time, the annual contest in front of Nathan's Famous fast-food stand at Coney Island also had a women's division.
Korean-born American Sonya Thomas, known as the "Black Widow" of competitive eating, won with 40 downed dogs, earning her 10-thousand dollars and her own pink champion's belt.
Thomas, from Alexandria, Virginia, started out neck-and-neck with second-place finisher Juliet Lee but later pulled ahead, finishing 10 1/2 wieners ahead of her main competitor.
Both Thomas and Chestnut broke world records in 2009, he with 68 and she with 41.
The annual spectacle on Coney Island draws tens of thousands of holiday revellers, watching as contestants shimmy, slither and bounce as they dip hot dogs in water and cram them down their throats.
For some, it's a painful reminder of excess, especially as the US battles a growing obesity problem.
The American Medical Association opposes competitive eating, saying it's harmful to the human body.
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