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Joey Chestnut sets new hot-dog eating record

                      Joey Chestnut downed 69 franks and devoured his own record in the men’s  Fourth of July hot dog eating contest while Sonya Thomas defended her title in  the women’s competition. The San Jose, Calif., man known as Jaws ate one more wiener than his previous  record to capture the mustard-yellow champion’s belt. He said afterward that he  was motivated by the prestige, not the $10,000 prize money. “I’d do this for nothing,” he said. Thomas, a 100-pound dynamo known as the “Black Widow” of competitive eating,  wolfed down nearly… View Article