#Nathan’s hot dog contest

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Huh… okay.

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Beating Joey Chestnut

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Georgetown News-Graphic cartoon: 6-14-24.

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Molly Sprayregen at LGBTQ Nation:

An anti-trans website devoted to denigrating trans women athletes seems to believe that trans women even have advantages in sports like darts, poker, esports, and yes, hot dog eating contests. SheWon.org, which purports to be entirely volunteer-run, provides a list of cisgender women athletes and the victories they allegedly would have secured in various competitions had a trans woman not beaten them.

This list includes Nathan’s Famous 2021 July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest, which occurs annually at New York’s Coney Island. The SheWon list names three women who would have come in first, second, and third place (rather than 2nd, 3rd, and 4th) had the actual winner, competitive eater Michelle Lesco, not won first place. The kicker: Lesco is not even transgender. There have long been rumors about her gender identity, which likely stemmed from a 2021 podcast in which Australian football player Sam Newman mocked Lesco for being trans, though it’s unclear where he got that information. But on Wednesday, Lesco responded to a post on X about the list to confirm her cisgender identity. “Just goes to show that people are more than willing to spread misinformation if it feeds outrage and vitriol,” she wrote before identifying herself as the 2021 winner and a “biological female.”

SheWon.org has been getting some attention as of late. Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), posted a link to it on X and claimed that it highlights the wins that were “stolen from female athletes because of biological men wrongfully competing in women’s sports.” In reality, women’s sports are harmed far more by sexism and unequal funding.

Right-wing anti-trans extremists such as SheWon.org push the baseless claim that trans women have an "unfair advantage" in hot dog-eating contests.

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Happy the day after Independence Day!

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HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!

CONGRATS TO Patrick Bertoletti!

#NathansHotDogEatingContest

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Patrick Bertoletti wins Nathan's scorching canine consuming contest

With the controversial absence of its king, Joey Chestnut, the aggressive consuming world turned its eyes to Coney Island, the place an open area of rivals aimed to usurp the crown at Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming contest. After 10 minutes of scarfing scorching canines, a brand new males’s champion emerged — Patrick Bertoletti. With mouth agape and abdomen…

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 6/28/24

All’s A-fair in a Family (CREDIT: Aaron Epstein/Netflix © 2024) Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out. Movies –A Family Affair (June 28 on Netflix) – Starring Joey King (and also Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron) –Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Theaters) – Part 2 arrives in August. –A Quiet…

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can’t believe joey chestnut got banned over VEGAN HOT DOGS. its so brutal in the competitive eating world. 😔

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When you have the microphone, what you say matters, even when you're just kidding. It's so easy to take refuge in the "just" of just kidding... But the preposterous and absurd can still shape our understanding of ourselves and one another. And ridiculous cruelty is still cruel.

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (The Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest)

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David Purdum at ESPN:

Joey Chestnut, the 16-time champion of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, will not compete in the annual Fourth of July event next month, Major League Eating announced Tuesday. A spokesperson for Major League Eating (MLE) told ESPN that Chestnut had chosen to "represent another hot dog brand" and therefore would not be allowed to participate in the Nathan's contest, which is held annually at New York City's Coney Island. Chestnut, competitive eating's biggest star who is known as "Jaws," has won the event eight years in a row. He reportedly agreed to a sponsorship deal with Impossible Foods, a company that makes plant-based hot dogs, and a competing company to Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs. "It would be like Michael Jordan saying to Nike, 'I'm going to represent Adidas, too,'" MLE event organizer George Shea said. ESPN has reached out to Chestnut and Impossible Foods for comment.

16-time men’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Champion Joey Chestnut has been barred from competing in this year’s edition due to Chestnut’s sponsoring of Impossible Foods (a competing company with Nathan’s), who provide plant-based hot dogs.