My type of athlete.
jwm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/12/pizza.eating.contest.ap/index.html
Man eats 45 slices of pizza in 10 minutes to win contest
* Story Highlights
* Joey Chestnut wins first-ever Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship
* He skyrocketed to competitive-eating fame in 2007 in hot-dog contest
* The 24-year-old Californian fasted for a day before downing the pizza
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chowdown champ Joey Chestnut has done it again -- this time proving he's a pizza powerhouse.
He downed 45 slices in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first-ever Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in New York's Times Square.
The 24-year-old from San Jose, California, says he fasted for more than a day to prepare.
He folded and squeezed the slices to make them easier to swallow.
The 24-year-old rocketed to competitive-eating celebrity when he won Coney Island's July Fourth hot-dog eating contest in 2007.
He took the title again this summer by gulping down 59 dogs in 10 minutes.
He won a contest in Tennessee last month by wolfing down 93 Krystal hamburgers in 8 minutes.
jwm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/12/pizza.eating.contest.ap/index.html
Man eats 45 slices of pizza in 10 minutes to win contest
* Story Highlights
* Joey Chestnut wins first-ever Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship
* He skyrocketed to competitive-eating fame in 2007 in hot-dog contest
* The 24-year-old Californian fasted for a day before downing the pizza
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chowdown champ Joey Chestnut has done it again -- this time proving he's a pizza powerhouse.
He downed 45 slices in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first-ever Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in New York's Times Square.
The 24-year-old from San Jose, California, says he fasted for more than a day to prepare.
He folded and squeezed the slices to make them easier to swallow.
The 24-year-old rocketed to competitive-eating celebrity when he won Coney Island's July Fourth hot-dog eating contest in 2007.
He took the title again this summer by gulping down 59 dogs in 10 minutes.
He won a contest in Tennessee last month by wolfing down 93 Krystal hamburgers in 8 minutes.
