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Takeru Kobayashi of Japan acknowledges the crowd from a spectators area at Nathan's annual hot dog eating contest in the Coney Island section of New York July 4, 2010.
Monday, Jul. 05, 2010

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  • TAKERU KOBAYASHI,
  • the hot dog speed-eating legend, was arrested after storming the stage at the annual July 4 contest on Coney Island. He was barred from participating after refusing to sign a mutually-exclusive eating contest contract
Photo: Brendan McDermid / Reuters | Source: BBC