For the uninitiated, cheese-rolling involves dozens of otherwise sane adults racing down a muddy, 45-degree bank in pursuit of a speeding, 8-lb. wheel of cheese. The first competitor to run, jump, bounce and roll their way 100 feet to the bottom of the hill wins the dairy trophy.

This year's Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition -- the event has been going on in the U.K. for at least 200 years -- drew 6,000 spectators and featured 200 competitors across five races, only three of whom ended up in hospital.

Twenty-one-year-old gas-station worker Chris Anderson completed his fifth and sixth triumphs in the sport and said he was retiring to concentrate on impending fatherhood.

While we're not sure a man who willingly risks permanent injury while chasing tumbling cheese should be allowed to procreate, we salute the achievements of a true sporting great.