{"id":2435,"date":"2004-07-05T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/05\/yanks-torpedoed-by-frank-japanese\/"},"modified":"2004-07-05T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T20:01:20","slug":"yanks-torpedoed-by-frank-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/05\/yanks-torpedoed-by-frank-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanks Torpedoed by Frank Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK:
\n He came, he ate and he conquered … again. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi
\n of Japan downed a world-record 53 1\/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes on Sunday,
\n blowing away his rivals for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n

The diminutive 26-year-old Japanese, known as The Gurgitator, successfully retained
\nthe Mustard Yellow International Belt – the World Cup of competitive eating –
\nat the July 4 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog event at New York’s Coney Island.<\/p>\n

Using his trademark "Solomon technique" – breaking the wieners in half
\nbefore wolfing them down – the 167cm, 60kg Kobayashi easily surpassed his own
\n50 1\/2-dog record, set in 2002…<\/p>\n

from the Australian<\/a><\/p>\n

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