..........so other nations can beat us at it.

Now the most exalted title in traditional English sports has fallen to a plucky lass who doesn't mind getting a bit grubby from North Carolina. Congratulations to her.
She must of been confident of the win to come all that way, but how did she train over there?

I've stopped to look at this hill not so far from me and it is a good deal steeper than it looks in media footage!

Ozzy Man Reviews, so colourful language warning!

I would end up with several broken bones and torn ligaments if I tried that sport.

Haha thanks for posting that. I think 'cheese' must be a British euphemism for dumbass, because the wheel bounces but the dumbasses are rolling.

That's looks mighty painful, Luther.

Fun to watch, no way I would participate though. I'd hate to be paralyzed from chasing a wheel of cheese.
F*ck me dead....that's a new saying to me.

Isn't a Sheila an Ozzie term?

Yes,slang for a female.

Parts of North Carolina are quite hilly and even mountainous, not unlike parts of Scotland, so she probably had several hills to choose from--plus lots of beer!

Yes, western NC has a lot of mountains indeed.

Grew up ~10 miles away so know how steep it is, there's a few other local 'traditions' (most seem to be really Victorian reinventions) involving May day cheese rolling in the area- tho not as 'extreme'-except the excuse for a pissup

Interesting to see how it has grown from a very local thing to an 'international' event

I knew that NC had hills, but I was wondering at the local peoples' reaction to seeing a young woman chasing a cheese down them!

Well, we don't know her training regimen. She could have used a tire or some other substitute for the cheese wheel. Or, just practiced rapidly falling down steep hills.

Either way, it probably looked strange to any observers of that training.

She got about 30secs on the local news, but here's an article from Sports Illustrated.

btw, she trained in Raleigh by just rolling down a hill.

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2022/06/06/cheese-roll-champion-abby-lampe

Didn't the British invent Golf?

WHOA. Long time, no see Piper. I thought you had left SimHQ?

Nah. I think it was the Irish.

The Dutch, French & no doubt others may dispute it but it is generally considered that Scotland is the home of golf.

Yes, you can't blame the English for golf.

Interesting that she seriously trained and planned strategies and all that.
Most English cheese-chasers just get drunk and let gravity do the rest.

Right, we can thank the Scots

The French get blamed for tennis. Today it sounds like the players are trying to have an organisms on the court.

When the players are young attractive women that doesn't bother me one bit.

Yeah, women's tennis is the only women's sport I like watching.

Keep grunting ladies, hit it harder.

Do you have a hairy palm?

Not at all. And yourself?

Women's volleyball is pretty good too.

I'll have to decline to agree, as I think volleyball's a poor sport, just this side of badminton actually. I appreciate the lovelies in all their pursuits, but no, can't agree about women's volleyball.

Of all the sports I watch, tennis is the only one where I enjoy the women's game. And it's not down only to the *soft factors*, ahem, but that I enjoy the competition.

But women's football (soccer), racing, basketball, hockey, golf, you name it, not interested at all.

I will watch the Olympics. Well I skipped China altogether. But watching the Olympics is more out of patriotism than interest in the competition on display. Like I will root for the USWNT in soccer, but there's zero chance I'd ever watch a club match.

we can, however, for cricket ... yawn

I do thank the English though for "Rounders" which heavily inspired Abner Doubleday when he refined the sport known as "Baseball" for Americans.

resemble baseball a bit. I have never seen cricket on TV.

Agreed.

Maria is the only tennis player I pay attention to

Anna Kournikova ? Eugenie Bouchard ?

Ah yes, Anna Kournikova. I remember in the very early days of The Daily Show, their sports segment was just the Anna Kournikova shot of the day, which was just a shot of here bending over as she gets ready to either make or receive a serve.

Also, when I played Texas Hold 'em we would call a pocket Ace King the Anna Kournikova hand because it looks pretty, but rarely wins.

You could have also called it the Danica Patrick hand.

And for your erudition, just last week we had the first "Cotswold Olimpicks", since Covid Pandemic.
A traditional event that predates the Modern Olympic Games by nearly 300 years. The most popular event, 'Shin Kicking'.



Blonde geezer with overstuffed white trousers has an interesting technique at 2.05. Was that an 'Ali Shuffle' or the 'back-end of a Pantomime Horse' move?

I feel pain just by reading “shin kicking”.

In Canada, this is a competition of skill? They are 10 feet away from a target as big as a house!



The Scottish are tough hombre like Sean Connery.