More than 17,000 mostly beer-fuelled spectators packed a Philadelphia indoor arena on Friday for the city’s annual early morning eating extravaganza in which competitors vie to eat the most chicken wings.
Japanese champion Takeru Kobayashi, weighing just 127 pounds, defeated his much larger opponents in the 20th annual Wing Bowl and walked away with a $20,000 prize after devouring a record-breaking 337 chicken wings during the 30-minute contest.
He easily smashed the previous record of 255 wings set by Jonathan “Super Squibb” Squibb, who had won the celebration of gluttony the previous three years, and defeated local favourite Bill “El Wingador” Simmons, a five-time champion who weighs 330 pounds.

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‘Largest virtual optical telescope created in chile’
Much to the delight of star gazers, astronomers claim to have created the world’s largest virtual optical telescope at the Paranal observatory in Chile.
An international team achieved the feat by linking four telescopes in Chile, so that they operate as a single device. In fact, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) form a virtual mirror of 130 metres in diameter. A previous attempt to link the four telescopes last March had failed.
“It’s an extremely important step because now we know that we’re ready to do real science. From now on we’ll be able to observe things we were not able to observe before,” the BBC quoted team leader Frederic Gonte as saying.
The VLT is one of several telescopes in the Atacama Desert, set up by the European Southern Observatory (Eso), an international research organisation headquartered in Munich, Germany, and sponsored by 15 member countries. — PTI