Alert – Cheese rolling live updates: Champion admits he ‘blacked out’ as daredevils sprint, trip and tumble down Gloucestershire’s steepest hill in bizarre bank holiday tradition – watch live

Daredevil cheese rollers from across the world are in Gloucestershire to hurl themselves down a steep hill to mark one of Britain’s most bizarre bank holiday traditions.

Classed as an extreme sport and dubbed one of the UK’s toughest downhill races, the competition involves chasing a 7lb (3kg) Double Gloucester cheese wheel down Coopers Hill in Brockworth . The winner gets to keep the cheese.

Although the origins of the tradition are unknown, theories suggest it may have started at least 600 years ago as a pagan festival to mark the start of summer.

German YouTuber Tom Kopke, from Munich, won the first race of the day to defend his crown.

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