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(NewsNation) — A Major League Eating prima is embroiled successful a cheating scandal, accused of stealing his opponent's plates during the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest to inflate his people and unafraid a spot among elite competitory eaters.
Nick Wehry finished fourth with a people of 51.75, according to the MLE's authoritative ranking. However, 2 sources intimately progressive successful the contention cited "footage and reports" from the time of the contention that bespeak a antithetic score, the New York Post reported.
How tin idiosyncratic cheat successful a blistery canine eating contest?
Wehry allegedly utilized manus tricks to bump his tally of eaten blistery dogs during the contest, the 2 sources told the New York Post.
The sources cited footage and claimed that Wehry's existent full people successful the 10-minute contention was 46.75 blistery dogs, not the 51.75 that landed him in fourth place.
They besides assertion that Wehry stole plates from different competitor's stack and added them to his own. Judges number the fig of blistery dogs eaten utilizing those plates, each of which holds 5 blistery dogs.
Footage from the competition, viewed by the New York Post, allegedly shows Wehry lingering astir the contention array and "picking up and twirling a plate" aft the timepiece deed zero.
'I'd ne'er privation to instrumentality a placing I didn't earn': Wehry
Wehry has denied immoderate wrongdoing, stating helium would "never cheat" and would privation immoderate mistakes corrected.
“If MLE determines I was miscounted past hole my number. My placing did not alteration if this was the case. I would ne'er privation to instrumentality a placing oregon fig I didn’t earn. I would ne'er cheat astatine a contest, careless of why. People that cognize maine cognize that," Wehry told the New York Post.
Wehry is besides the hubby of Miki Sudo, the women's part champion and a 10-time champion. Sudo ate 51 blistery dogs successful 10 minutes, mounting a caller satellite grounds for women. The 38-year-old defending champion past twelvemonth won aft eating 39 1/2 blistery dogs, portion her idiosyncratic champion is 48 1/2, the women’s satellite record.
How is the Major League Eating responding?
Major League Eating, which sanctions Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest and oversees the authoritative judging, stated that it investigated aft becoming alert of the accusations against Wehry.
"It is not our argumentation to overturn the judges' last decision," MLE said.
Wehry is acceptable to vie successful a blueberry eating contention Saturday.
NewsNation reached retired to Nathan's Famous for remark but has not yet received a response.
