“One to be ready! Two to be steady! Three for the cheese! Four to be off!” Master of ceremonies Jem Wakeman, decked in a white smock and donning a black top hat with red, white and blue ribbons ...

All British sports must eventually face their dark night of the soul pondering the failures of home-grown talent. In elite dairy-chasing some urgent questions are reverberating after Monday’s Cooper’s ...

INDY WEEK: How did you get involved in the championship? What brought you to compete in it? ABBY LAMPE: Social media and videos on YouTube. I hadn’t seen the Netflix special [We Are the Champions, ...

Ouch! She did it again! North Carolinian Abby Lampe won the women's race at the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake in Gloucester, England, her second title. She talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about ...

A Canadian woman has won a historic cheese-rolling race in the United Kingdom — despite being knocked unconscious in the process. Delaney Irving, 19, was chasing after a 7lb wheel of Gloucester cheese ...

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake returns to Brockworth, Gloucestershire on Monday, May 29, 2023. The annual event, which sends contestants barreling down the 200-yard-long hill to race after ...

A 19-year-old woman from Canada was knocked out while competing in England’s annual Cheese Rolling event on Monday, but won the women’s race anyway. “I remember hitting my head, I remember it hurting ...

For the first time since 2019, several dozen hopefuls literally threw themselves down a ridiculously steep hill in the west of England, as they tried desperately to catch up to… a seven-plus pound ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — The “cheese-rolling champion of the world,” North Carolinian Abby Lampe, is working with a North Carolina company to sell merchandise, and she says she plans to donate her cut ...

LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester ...

Every year since at least 1826, hundreds of questionably-hinged individuals from around the globe gather at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire to enjoy the privilege of throwing themselves down a steep ...