Thousands slip in Gloucestershire cheese-rolling race

Dairy devils

Thousands of people headed to Gloucestershire for the annual cheese-rolling races on Monday. The event, which is known to have taken place since at least 1826, sees competitors hurl themselves down Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester, to chase a wheel of cheese, with the first to grab it named the winner. 

This year the course was particularly slippery due to recent wet weather, said The Associated Press – and local rugby club members assembled at the bottom of the course to catch tumbling participants.

Caught in the act