‘I’m going to get his ass’: YouTuber beats all-time cheese-rolling champion
Key takeaways
- Participants mid-roll in the first men's downhill race on Monday.
- It was billed as the great cheese-off; a helter-skelter, bone-jarring downhill race between the all-time champ and a young upstart.
- After the hype and hyperbole, youth won out, as the 24-year-old German YouTuber Tom Kopke beat 38-year-old local hero Chris Anderson at the annual cheese-rolling event in the English West Country.
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Participants mid-roll in the first men's downhill race on Monday. Photograph: Jacob King/PAView image in fullscreen Participants mid-roll in the first men's downhill race on Monday. Photograph: Jacob King/PAGloucestershire‘I’m going to get his ass’: You Tuber beats all-time cheese-rolling champion Tom Kopke, from Germany, out-tumbled local hero Chris Anderson to win his third roll on hot day in Gloucestershire
Prefer the Guardian on Google. It was billed as the great cheese-off; a helter-skelter, bone-jarring downhill race between the all-time champ and a young upstart.
After the hype and hyperbole, youth won out, as the 24-year-old German YouTuber Tom Kopke beat 38-year-old local hero Chris Anderson at the annual cheese-rolling event in the English West Country.