Are we approaching the limits of competitive eating?
Possibly!:
"The theoretical ceiling has been set at 84 hotdogs in 10 minutes. The current world record, set by Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut earlier this month, stands at 75.
James Smoliga, a sports medicine specialist at High Point University in North Carolina who authored the research, described 84 hotdogs as 'the maximum possible limit for a Usain Bolt-type performance'.
The analysis is based on 39 years of historical data from Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, an annual spectacle of gluttony held on Coney Island, New York, combined with the latest sports science theory, which uses mathematical modelling to project trends in performance."
This is the second time I've done competitive eating with my adult students. They were pretty unimpressed the first time, if not shocked to see so much food wasted. But I'm so tired from grading, so what the hell.
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