🧀 “I just remember hitting my head, and now I have the cheese.' Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill.
Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England.The cheese-rolling race has been held at Cooper’s Hill, about 100 miles west of London, since at least 1826, and the sport of cheese-rolling is believed to be much older.The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns.
Canadian contestant Delaney Irving, 19, won the women’s race despite being briefly knocked unconscious. “I just remember hitting my head, and now I have the cheese,” said Irving, who comes from Nanaimo, British Columbia.
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