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ROYAL HOLIDAY CLUB RHC (POINTS)
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Cooper's Hill as Viewed from the Bottom
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Cooper's Hill as Viewed from the Top
Today is the running of the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling Race - an event that has been going on for more than 200 years. In this Race, 20-contestants run down the steep, 300-yard (274-meter) Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England.
What's the prize? A seven-to-nine pound wheel of Gloucestershire, Cheese.
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Watched over by Rob Seex, the Cheese Rolling Master of Ceremonies (top hat), contestants in the men's race chase a Double Gloucester Cheese down the steep gradient of Cooper's Hill during the annual Bank Holiday tradition of cheese-rolling on May 25, 2009 in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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Competitors scramble down Cooper's Hill in pursuit of a round Double Gloucester cheese on May 25, 2009 during the annual cheese rolling and wake near Gloucester. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
Gilbert K. Chesterton is known to have said " The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese"
Richard