THE COOPER'S HILL CHEESE ROLLING

by - May 15, 2015

The Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling is an annual event held in the spring break on a hill “Cooper Hill”, near “Gloucester”, located in the city of the “Cotswolds” in England, the event, which took the name of the nominee of the hill and foremost it is a traditional event was popular participation of citizens from a local village called “Brokort ", but now it has become a global event in which people participate from different world
The Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling



Cooper Hill
There are a lot of rumors that talk about the beginning of the event. Retired Professor "Jean Jeffries" and the author of a book about "cheese rolling" races says: "The words abound for this contest and beginning. It is said that the competition has been done while the presence of the "Phoenicians" to visit Britain before 1000 years AD, or perhaps "the Romans", which is still their fortresses located in Upper Hill, or she may be one of the old rituals that are held to celebrate the "fertility of men", no one actually asserts when the cheese rolling contest began.
Cheese Ball contest rolling be a ball of "Gloucester" cheese double, thrown from the heights of the hill begins contenders ran from the top of the hill to the bottom, hoping to capture a ball of cheese, and the first person gets the cheese and up to the bottom of the hill is the winner cheese ball, but the competition is not easy As everyone thinks the speed of the competitors during the run up to more than 70mph (112 km / h), which means that the competitor may roll over repeatedly injures or that his head hit the trunk of a tree in the worst conditions.
Gloucester city


Cheese ball before it is used in the race are licensed by the British Ministry of Food. Where they are saved in a circular stage, through the tree hole and fill it with cheese according to the old traditional way in Britain, then the tree is wrapped white paper and decorated with ribbons red and blue colors of the proportion of England.

Gloucester cheese


( startimes.com)

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