The World’s Most Dangerous Race Against a Wheel of Cheese

Author: Larry Mitchell / Source: did you know?

Every year, the town of Cooper’s Hill in Gloucester, England has a race.

Not a big deal, I guess, except that it’s down a very steep hill:

Oh… and the race is against a 7-9 pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese:

The winner of The Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake (the race’s official title) gets to keep the cheese – except in times of scarcity and/or concern, when it’s made of foam or wood. Usually, though, it’s a real-deal cheese wheel.

And that’s pretty much the it.

The race supposedly dates all the way back to an ancient Pagan ritual, but over the last several decades the event has gone global: thousands of people have come from all over…

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