{"id":3806,"date":"2023-06-06T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2023-06-06T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:02:59","slug":"contestants-chase-cheese-wheel-down-a-hill-in-chaotic-uk-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/06\/contestants-chase-cheese-wheel-down-a-hill-in-chaotic-uk-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Contestants chase cheese wheel down a hill in chaotic UK race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper\u2019s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to keep it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cheese-rolling race has been held at Cooper\u2019s Hill, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, since at least 1826, and the sport of cheese-rolling is believed to be much older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns. Few competitors manage to stay on their feet all the way down the 200-yard (180 meter) hill, and this year several had to be helped, limping, from the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian contestant Delaney Irving, 19, won the women\u2019s race despite being briefly knocked unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just remember hitting my head, and now I have the cheese,\u201d said Irving, who comes from Nanaimo, British Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Crolla, 28, from Manchester in northwestern England, won the first of several men\u2019s races. Asked how he had prepared, he told reporters: \u201cI don\u2019t think you can train for it, can you? It\u2019s just being an idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AP The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper\u2019s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to keep it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-06-at-22.00.21.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}