Has anyone died in the cheese race?
Has anyone died in the cheese race? No one has ever been killed at the cheese roll, though there is an apocryphal story about a runner dropping dead at the end of a race centuries ago. Runners aren't the only ones at risk; bystanders have also been hurt-by out-of-control runners, but more often by bouncing cheeses. How do you win cheese rolling? What is cheese rolling? It's pretty self-explanatory – a nine pound round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled from the very top of the hill and competitors chase after it down to the bottom. The first person across...