The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll is quintessentially British, delightfully silly and only somewhat dangerous. It is exactly what it sounds like—which is to say, a race where a wheel of cheese is rolled down a steep hill and hundreds of people follow. Dating back centuries in Gloucestershire, it bills itself as an extreme sport, and if you watch even just a few seconds, it’s hard to argue: What is more extreme than flinging yourself down a hill in pursuit of cheese? And what is more of a sport than a race?
After a pandemic hiatus, the cheese roll was held for the first time in two years on Sunday. But this year’s women’s champ hadn’t just waited a long time for it—she’d also traveled a long way.
