I could NOT delete this one!!
Ultimate Monkey Challenge at Sunapee
It turned into a two team race.
It turns out that many humans can not eat bananas fast. Mount Sunapee had blatantly ripped off Killington's idea of holding a post race eating contest but instead of pies, the contestants ate bunches of bananas. It was called the Ultimate Monkey Challenge. Apparently bananas are harder to eat than you'd think, because only the Killington One squad and the giants on the Whaleback #2 team looked like they would ever even finish. Whaleback had a daunting squad of two M3 boys and an F2 girl who were all at least a foot taller than the three M5 boys from Killington, but the Killington team had heart, talent and a strategy. Their strategy was to eat bananas twice as fast as all the other teams. They finished so far ahead that they had been doing a victory dance for thirty seconds before the judges realized that there were not enough banana peels in front of them. It seems a spectator had hidden one of their bananas. In a panic, and with the Whaleback team bogged down half way through their last banana, the Killington anchorman tried to stuff his entire final banana into his mouth all at once. It was a risky move. Fit it all in there and you win, but not fit it all in, and you're chewing for ever with a tiny bite of banana still in your hand. Could they pull off a Michael Phelps type finish? It was heartbreaking. The Whaleback team beat Killington by seconds. The TD said something about spectator interference and re-runs but Killington had finished their race, crossed the finish line so to say, and besides, there were no more bananas. The whole incident brought up the issue of the lack of specs for post race eating contest venues in the USSA rulebook. What does the FIS say?