Chasing cheese wheels or lugging sacks of wool, UK competitors embrace quirky extreme races
LONDON (AP) — Dairy-loving daredevils threw warning to the wind Monday for one among Britain’s most excessive annual occasions: Cheese rolling. Cheered by a number of thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers chased 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheels of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, close to Gloucester in southwest England. The primary racer … Read more