Delaney Irving woke up in a medical tent with a wheel of cheese in her lap on Monday.
She’d just competed in the annual Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling & Wake in Gloucester, where competitors from around the world chase a wheel of cheese down a hill, hoping for a taste of victory.
Irving, who lives in Nanaimo, B.C., was on a backpacking trip in the U.K. when she decided to take part in the bizarre British tradition. Racers often take a tumble down the hill, and in Irving’s case, she was knocked unconscious.
“At the very top [of the hill], I was just thinking, wow,
