Steve Haywood Health & Fitness

Barry Rigby - pie eating champion

As more and more sports are implicated in using drugs to enhance performance, I have just read an article that takes the biscuit (or the pie). Some may think that pie eating will never become a sport. By the 2020 Olympics it will be included along with Marathon TV watching. Please read on:-

A Wigan man has been crowned the World Pie-Eating champion after polishing off a pie in just 47 seconds. Barry Rigby, 36, from Beech Hill, beat off stiff competition, including last year’s winner, to win the prestigious crown.
From WiganToday.net

For the first year tournament organisers in the pie eating capital of the world were forced to do drug tests on competitors after finding some were using cough medicine to lubricate the passage of the little beauties down their throats.

Taken from the Dec – Jan 2010 Big Issue in the North