A 19-year-old woman from Canada won a frantic cheese-chasing race down a steep hill despite being knocked out during the event.
A 19-year-old woman from Canada won a frantic cheese-chasing race down a steep hill despite being knocked out during the extreme sporting event in the U.K. that dates back two centuries.
Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to keep it. Delaney Irving, the winner of the first Cooper's hill women's downhill race, smiles with her cheese and supporters after being knocked unconscious during the race on May 29, 2023 in Gloucester, United Kingdom.Delaney Irving, of Nanaimo, British Columbia, won the women's race despite being briefly knocked unconscious.
"I just remember hitting my head, I remember hurting, and then I remember waking up in the tent," Irving told Greatest Hits Radio Gloucester. 🇨🇦 Speaking to us afterwards, Delaney Irving confirmed she was okay and told us she was heading off to hospital as a precaution
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