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• Canadian breaks speed record for eating 50 Carolina reapers – The Guardian (30 September 2023)
  
  
• Massachusetts teen dies after eating spicy tortilla chip -- The Guardian (05 September 2023)
  
  
• Eagles, Chiefs fans: Easton community organizer is looking for wing-eating champ -- LancasterOnline (01 February 2023)
  
  
• Upcoming Eating Contests -- Major League Eating: The Professional League of Eating Contests
  
  
• Does competitive eating damage your stomach? -- The Healthy Journal (10 February 2023)
  
  
• "Very Fleshy" — Competitive Eater Consumes 13 Durians During 1-Hour Musang King Buffet -- says (01 February 2023)
  
  
• Professional Eating Champions Who Were Seriously Injured -- mashed (27 January 2023)
  
  
• I Tried Eating 8 Pounds of Ramen in One Sitting Because I Have Free Will -- Food&Wine (24 January 2024)
  
  
• Partners in DINE: Meet the competitive eating couple amassing an army of TikTok fans by scoffing thousands of calories in brutal belly-bursting food challenges -- DailyMail (22 January 2023)
  
  
• Competitive Eater Takes on Cool Hand Luke-esque 50 Hard-Boiled Eggs Challenge -- storyful (19 January 2023)
  
  
• At Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest, One Champion Keeps His Title and Another [Miki Sudo] Reclaims Hers -- The New York Times (04 July 2022)
  
  
• Imperious Joey Chestnut eats 63 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win Nathan’s title – The Guardian (04 July 2022)
  
  
• Competitive eater shares how he eats up to 10,000 calories daily while maintaining a ripped physique and why he isn't worried about his health: 'I don't even like vegetables' -- DailyMail (03 July 2022)
  
  
• Joey Chestnut eats record 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win Nathan’s Famous title [a new world record] – The Guardian (4 July 2021)
  
  

  
  

• 'It smelled like pain and regret': inside the world of competitive hot chilli eaters – The Guardian (1 April 2021)
  
  
• Joey Chestnut Devours 12-Pound Walking Taco In 38 Minutes! -- TMZ Sports (5 October 2020)
  
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• Competitive hotdog eaters nearing limit of human performance – The Guardian (14 July 2020)
  
  
• Joey Chestnut Shoots Down Retirement I'll Be Back As Long As Dr. Clears Me! -- TMZ Sports (09 July 2020)
  
  
• Should hot dog eating competition hero Joey Chestnut be included in greatest 'athlete' debate? -- USA TODAY (05 July 2020)
  
  
• NFL Writer Peter King Is Offended By 4th Of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, Calls It A ‘Sin’ -- brobible (05 July 2020)
  
  
• Joey Chestnut (75), Miki Sudo (48.5) retain Nathan's Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest titles -- ESPN (04 July 2020)
  
  
• Woman dies in Australia Day lamington-eating contest -- BBCnews 27 January 2020
  
  
• Man dies after taco-eating contest in California – The Guardian (13 August 2019)
  
  
• He Ate the World’s Hottest Pepper, Then Landed in the Hospital With ‘Thunderclap’ Headaches -- The New York Times (09 April 2018)
  
  
• This is what happens to the bodies of competitive eaters -- Business Insider (4 July 2017)
  
  
• Supreme Joey Chestnut eats 72 hot dogs to win Nathan's Famous title -- The Guardian (04 July 2017)
  
  
• The Dangers of Eating Contests -- EATER (7 April 2017)
  
  
• Competitive eater wins gold: 92 chicken wings in eight minutes! -- hungarygowhere (12 January 2017)
  
  
• The World of Competitive Eating -- How They Play (10 January 2017)
  
  
• Food League contestant eats 92 wings in 8 min -- SINGAPORE (08 January 2017)
  
  
• Getting a taste for competitive eating -- Buffy Gorrilla (This originally appeared on The Citizen Thursday 18 August 2016)
  
  
• Insane Man [Joey Chestnut] Wins Hot Wing and Hot Dog Eating Competitions in the Same Week -- EATER (13 July 2016)
  
  
• Kale: 'the disgusting new frontier of major league eating' -- The Guardian (10 July 2016)
  
  
• At Nathan’s Hot-Dog Eating Contest, Champion Regains His Title [with a total of 70 hot dogs and buns eaten on July 4, 2016] -- The Wall Street Journal (04 July 2016)
  
  
• Joey ["Jaws"] Chestnut Wins 2016 Nathan’s Famous Hot-Dog Eating Contest -- The Wall Street Journal (04 July 2016)
  
  
• Krispy Kreme Challenge contestant dies at the start -- CBSNEWS (08 February 2016)
  
  
• Meet Molly Schuyler: The Wing-Guzzling, Burrito-Destroying ‘LeBron James of Competitive Eating’ -- greatideas/people (04 February 2016)
  
  
• Inside the disturbing dangers of competitive eating -- USA Today (21 July 2015)
  
  
• Fourth of July hot dog eating championship upset -- BBCNews (05 July 2015)
  
  
• Stonie ends Joey ["Jaws"] Chestnut's 8-year reign at Nathan's hot dog contest -- CNNNews (4 July 2015)
  
  
  • Joey ["Jaws"] Chestnut Wins 2016 Nathan’s Famous Hot-Dog Eating Contest -- The Wall Street Journal (04 July 2016)
    
    
  • At Nathan’s Hot-Dog Eating Contest, Champion Regains His Title [with a total of 70 hot dogs and buns eaten on July 4, 2016] -- The Wall Street Journal (04 July 2016)
    
    
• 4 things to know about the Nathan's hot dog eating contest -- wsoctv
  
  
• 5 Things You Didn't Know About Competitive Eating -- ABCnews (03 July 2014)
  
  
• Man dies at South Dakota hot dog eating contest -- MPR (8 July 2014)
  
  
• Sauerkraut King named in Henderson -- MPR (1 July 2013)
  
  
• There Are No Winners in Competitive Eating Contents -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (18 October 2012)
  
  
• Man dies after cockroach-eating competition -- BBCNews (8 October 2012)
  
  
• Florida man dies after winning roach-eating contest -- CNN U.S. (9 October 2012)
  
  
• US man sets hot dog eating record -- BBCNews (04 July 2009)
  
  

• Association of Independent Competitive Eaters (AICE)
  
  
• F EAT S EatFeats: competitive eating news, database & calendar
  
  
• International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE)
  
  
• Jamie "the Bear" McDonald: Competitive Eating Beast
  
  
• Major League Eating
  
  
• Naccarato, Peter, and Kathleen LeBesco. Culinary Capital. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2012.
  
  
• Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Sonya Thomas is "The Black Widow" of Competitive Eating: 39 World Records ...

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Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas ate 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes in 2011 to gain National Title
The Daily Mail (06 September 2011)

“Thomas had won 1st place in the National Buffalo Wing Festival US chicken wing eating championship five-years straight from 2007-2011. On September 4, 2011, she attained the United States Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo, New York by eating 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes. On September 2, 2012 Joey [“Jaws”] Chestnut consumed 191 wings (7.61 pounds) in 12 minutes to take competitive-eating trophy from the five-year champion Sonya Thomas." -- Wikipedia
The Buffalo News (12 September 2012)