Female contestants of Major League Eating, including reigning champion Miki Sudo, discuss their preparations for this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Following Joey Chestnut’s ban, this year’s competition is drawing more eyes than ever.
means family barbecues and stuffing our dogs into Thundershirts before the fireworks begin. For others, it means taking the train to Coney Island to stand outside in hundred-degree heat and watch professional athletes wolf down as many hot dogs as possible in ten minutes.
Between taking care of her son, attending dental-hygiene school full-time, and worrying about the rise of promising competitors, Sudo’s nervous about defending her title. “I can’t lose this belt,” she tells me. Does she plan to hit 50 dogs this year, shattering her record? “Personally, I just want to win,” Sudo says. She’s trained to break the record before, but circumstances like extreme heat can easily put it out of reach. Joey Chestnut lost his ninth belt to.
And gender representation, the eaters know, is a fight in any sport — even the unappetizing ones. Mary Bowers, who’s representing Korea, is ranked tenth among the women eaters and is headed to Nathan’s for the ninth time. Her eating journey started at a restaurant in Orange County, California, when she saw a sign for a hot-dog contest headlined by Kobayashi. Bowers went in to watch but ended up putting her name down on the sign-up sheet. She was the only woman at the table.
Last year, Bowers tells me, rain delayed the men’s competition, and in the chaos, ESPN ended up replaying the women’s contest during the prime telecast. It struck her to see how many fans were surprised to see women eat. “They didn’t know it was part of the contest. They started asking to see it,” says Bowers. ESPN will air a women’s replay during this year’s main telecast, too. For Bowers, that’s as it should be. “We are in demand,” she says. “We can deliver results.
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