A 19-year outdated Canadian girl was unconscious when she gained the UK's excessive, downhill Gloucester cheese-chasing race

• The winner of this 12 months’s Gloucester cheese rolling race was unconscious by the point she crossed the end line.
• Delaney Irving, who gained the ladies’s race, discovered she gained when she wakened within the medical tent, per CBS.
• The winner of the mad sprint down a steep, 200-yard hill, will get to maintain the wheel of cheese.

The Canadian teenager who gained the UK’s coveted cheese rolling race down a perilously sloped hill on Sunday misplaced consciousness earlier than she tumbled previous the end line.

In line with CBS Information, 19-year-old Delaney Irving gained the ladies’s Gloucester cheese rolling competitors on Sunday, a 200-year custom the place contestants chase a wheel of cheese down an almost-vertical hill in Gloucester, positioned in southwest England. 

As gravity takes its toll, contestants tumble and catapult down the hill, and this 12 months’s winner, Irving, was knocked out by a fall as she rolled previous the end line. She stated that she discovered that she was the winner after waking up within the medical tent.

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“I simply keep in mind hitting my head, I keep in mind hurting, after which I keep in mind waking up within the tent,” Irving stated after the race, per CBS Information.

The winner of the mad sprint down the 200-yard hill will get to maintain the wheel of cheese, which is a 7-9 pound roll of Double Gloucester. Tons of of onlookers collect on the sides of the hill to look at on, and the contestants don’t have to pay an entry payment.

In line with The Washington Submit, rugby gamers line up on the base of the hill to catch contestants as they torpedo down the hill. The hill is infamous for leaving contestants with accidents like damaged bones and sprains, per the Submit.