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An appetite for risk

Stop all the mollycoddling

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

Every year in a sleepy English village in Gloucestershire, there’s a festival where people turn up and chase a wheel of cheese down a hill. Due to the gradient of the hill, there are numerous injuries every year. Last year a Canadian woman won the race, despite finishing unconscious and only finding out her victory in the medical tent.

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