EATING CONTESTS: IS THERE A LIMIT TO HOW MUCH YOU CAN CONSUME IN ONE GO?

This summer, the world record for the ‘sport’ of hotdog speed-eating was broken for the third time in five years. Are we approaching peak performance?

Who would you pick as the world’s greatest-ever athlete? Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, or Michael Phelps? No doubt they have all dominated their sports at various times, but what about Joey Chestnut? Most people have probably never heard of him, but for the two million viewers who tune in to what must be the weirdest event of the US sporting calendar, Joey ‘Jaws’ Chestnut is a bona fide legend.

Chestnut is the undisputed champion of competitive eating and has utterly dominated the hundred-year-old ‘Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest’ – an event that has become the must-see