Contestants chase cheese wheel down a hill in chaotic UK race

[edwest4]

Things have apparently - ahem - returned to normal.

Contestants chase cheese wheel down a hill in chaotic UK race

Dozens of reckless racers have chased a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill near Gloucester in southwestern England. The cheese-rolling race has been held at Cooper’s Hill, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, since at least...

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[OliverSedlacek]

Loved the sound bite from one of the locals a few years ago:
"The cheese must roll or Gloucestershire shall be doomed"