Have you heard...
...of the Cooper Hill Cheese Roll?
Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.
'One to be ready
Two to be steady
Three to prepare', at which time an invited guest launches the chunk of cheese on its downward pilgrimage, then
'Four to be off.'
What follows can only be described as dairy based carnage. Broken bones are a given and sprains and bruises are numerous, as up to twenty contestants in any given race tumble and roll their way headlong down the slope in pursuit of the elusive chunk of Double Gloucester. Keeping your feet is rarely an option, contestants just seem to go with the flow, tumbling out of control like rag dolls with a death wish. Inevitably the cheese wins.
http://www.2camels.com/cheese-rolling.php
Three hurt in cheese rolling race
Three people have been hurt chasing a giant cheese down a steep slope in Gloucestershire.
The annual event on Cooper's Hill involves competitors hurling themselves 200 metres down the steep hill.
The winner, window fitter Chris Anderson, received his 9lb Double Gloucester as he was taken away on a stretcher with a sprained ankle.
Organisers said two other people were taken to hospital and may have suffered spinal injuries.
Chris, 17, from nearby Brockworth, said: "The pain was worth it. I went over on my ankle right at the top of the hill.
"This cheese is going straight in a cupboard when I get home. It's definitely not for eating."
New Zealander Dione Carter won the woman's event for the second year running.
"This was a lot tougher than last year. I had a few nasty tumbles."
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.
'One to be ready
Two to be steady
Three to prepare', at which time an invited guest launches the chunk of cheese on its downward pilgrimage, then
'Four to be off.'
What follows can only be described as dairy based carnage. Broken bones are a given and sprains and bruises are numerous, as up to twenty contestants in any given race tumble and roll their way headlong down the slope in pursuit of the elusive chunk of Double Gloucester. Keeping your feet is rarely an option, contestants just seem to go with the flow, tumbling out of control like rag dolls with a death wish. Inevitably the cheese wins.
http://www.2camels.com/cheese-rolling.php
Three hurt in cheese rolling race
Three people have been hurt chasing a giant cheese down a steep slope in Gloucestershire.
The annual event on Cooper's Hill involves competitors hurling themselves 200 metres down the steep hill.
The winner, window fitter Chris Anderson, received his 9lb Double Gloucester as he was taken away on a stretcher with a sprained ankle.
Organisers said two other people were taken to hospital and may have suffered spinal injuries.
Chris, 17, from nearby Brockworth, said: "The pain was worth it. I went over on my ankle right at the top of the hill.
"This cheese is going straight in a cupboard when I get home. It's definitely not for eating."
New Zealander Dione Carter won the woman's event for the second year running.
"This was a lot tougher than last year. I had a few nasty tumbles."
http://news.bbc.co.uk
posted by el Craplastico | 6:59:00 PM
1 Comments:
This is my kind of silly shit!
Beth, how come you never did anything like this when you worked for the dairy board in Canada?
We should be having cheese rolls in every hilly town everywhere!
I am Pro-Cheese Roll!!!!
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