BROCKWORTH, England (AP) — For the second year running, a German YouTuber was the big cheese Monday at one of Britain’s zaniest sports competitions.
Tom Kopke slipped, stumbled and tumbled his way to victory in the annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling race.
“All the people at the top said they were going to steal my title but this is mine,” a shirtless Kopke declared as he clutched his prize, a 7-pound (3-kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. “I risked my life for this. It’s my cheese. Back to back.”
Kopke, from Munich, won the first race of the day as men and women competed in several groups to chase a wheel of cheese down the 200-yard (180 meter) perilously steep pitch near Gloucester, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of London.