Cheese-rolling champion goes out at the top as injuries grate
Chris Anderson’s first experience of falling down the near-vertical hill where an annual cheese-rolling race takes place was when he was a teenager after having a few drinks one night. “I was thrown down there a couple of times when I was drunk,” Anderson, the record-breaking 23-time champion of...
These are Europe’s most unusual sporting events
Recently, thousands of fearless participants gathered to take part in the annual Royal Shrovetide football game. If you’ve never heard of this violent and absolutely bonkers medieval sport before, picture this: two teams, consisting of about 1,000 people each, gather in a small town in England to play a...