Posted on Thu May 29, 2008 at 03:00:06 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: cheese rolling, video, British, ouch (all tags)

We've said it before and we'll say it again, nothing tops the Annual Gloucestershire Cheese-Rolling extravaganza held across the pond. After all, does anything sound like more fun than people falling head over heels while chasing a wheel of cheese? The answer is an astounding "no."

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Posted on Tue May 29, 2007 at 12:23:01 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: weird, cheese rolling (all tags)

Of all the ridiculous things that happened over this Memorial Day weekend, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake was perhaps the weirdest. The tradition of racing down a hill after a Double Gloucester cheese seems to date back as far as 200 years ago. While nobody ever catches up to the cheese, the person who crosses the finish line first... gets the cheese.

Of course, the whole purposes of the event is not to win the cheese but to watch a bunch of people falling down a hill. The event attracted about 3,000 people, mostly spectators, but dozens still ran/rolled down after the cheese.

Links:
[BBC]: Cheese-rolling race winners' joy

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