NEW YORK – JULY 4: Chairman of Major League Eating George Shea (L) speaks as Takeru Kobayashi (C) of Nagano, Japan and Patrick “deep dish” Bertoletti (R) look on after Joey Chestnut of San Jose, California defeated them in the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest on July 4, 2009 in Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Chestnut defeated Kobayashi with eating 68 to his 64.5 hotdogs. Kobayashi won six previous competitions before tying last year with Chestnut. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)