Delaney Irving does not even remember her big win at Monday's Cooper Hill Cheese Rolling race, because as she crossed the finish line, she was unconscious.
in what may be one of the greatest post-race interview quotes of all time. The Cooper Hill Cheese Rolling race is a centuries-old event wherein contestants chase—or rather, aggressively tumble—after a wheel of Double Gloucester Cheese. Whoever finishes first behind the cheese wins the big prize, which is, again, the cheese itself. A quick look through shopping tab on a Google search for “Double Gloucester Cheese” leads me to estimate a wheel that heavy is worth about $200.
Of course, they do have bones, and it isn’t uncommon for those to break or sprain.“I said, ‘Go to the hospital. And I love you. And you’re crazy. And I love you,’” Krista Endrizzi, Irving’s mother. Luckily, Irving seems to be OK.
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