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VIDEO AT LINK............... May 30 (UPI) -- The annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling race in England featured the winner of one round getting knocked unconscious and only learning of her victory when she woke up in a medical tent. The annual event in Brockworth, near Gloucester, featured multiple rounds of racers stumbling down the steep Cooper's Hill to chase a simulated wheel of double Gloucester cheese to earn a real wheel of cheese as a prize. Delaney Irving, 19, who traveled from Canada to participate in the cheese chase, ran in a women-only round and didn't discover she had won the...

GLOUCESTER, England, - Organizers of an annual Cheese Rolling event in Gloucester, England, say this year's competition has been canceled because of health and safety concerns. Richard Jeffries of the event's organizing committee, said local officials were concerned overcrowding at the May 31 event could cause problems, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. "Last year, 15,000 spectators came to the event, by far the most we have ever seen, and we just could not cope," Jefferfies said. "As well as concerns about the safety of the crowd and the competitors, local landowners were also worried by the amount of damage done...