June 3 (UPI) --The small village of Brockworth, England, is bracing for an influx of visitors celebrating the return of an unusual -- and infamously dangerous -- tradition: the Cooper's Hill ...
The gays have a new favorite sport, although safety is not guaranteed for bottoms — or, well, anyone. In the spirit of slap fighting, toe wrestling, and competitive hot dog eating, the English county ...
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 wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical ...
After a year sabbatical, American Abby Lampe tumbled 200 yards through the mud, grass and sea of limbs down a steep hill to claim victory at an English village’s annual cheese-rolling competition, ...
Each year, Gloucester, England, hosts the exhilarating Cheese Rolling Festival—a wild and daring event where participants hurl themselves down a steep 180-meter (nearly 600-foot) hill in pursuit of a ...
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 ...
Communities are being invited to nominate traditions from ceilidhs and cheese-rolling to the Notting Hill Carnival for a UK register of “living heritage”. The UK-wide inventory will encompass ...
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, ...
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