Daredevils Take Part In World-Famous Annual Cheese Rolling Competition

Thrill-seekers in Gloucestershire, UK gathered Monday on Cooper’s Hill to chase an 8lb wheel of double Gloucester cheese. Dating back to 1826, this annual tradition drew competitors eager to win the speeding cheese racing at 70mph down the steep 1:2 gradient. Among this year’s victors were a YouTube personality and a university student supporting refugee and homeless causes. Tom Kopke, a 23-year-old from Munich, clinched the men’s downhill race, reflecting on the competition’s heightened danger due to a dry track. A university student named Ava Sender Logan, 20, won the women’s race and declared afterwards: “I don’t like cheese.” (BBC)