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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Don't call it a comeback. NC State alum Abby Lampe is once-again a cheese rolling champion. Lampe was 2024's women's division winner of the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling ...

“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 ...

ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) - It’s one of those things you have to see to believe. A cheese-rolling competition in South West England attracts people from all over the world to keep a longstanding tradition ...