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Atlantic
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
Photos of the Week: Wienermobile Race, Beehive Therapy, Everest Queue
A rare tornado touchdown in Chile, a dinosaur exhibition in Shanghai, a hummingbird clinic in Mexico, a 'Dogs and Fun' fair in Germany, an aerial ferry bridge in France, and much more Vikyath Tanamala, 10, of Leesburg, Virginia, closes his eyes during the preliminaries of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 27, 2025. Two hundred and forty-three spellers ages 8 to 14, from all over the globe, compete from May 27 to May 30 during the 100th anniversary of the bee. Contestants in a women's downhill race chase a wheel of cheese down Cooper's Hill on May 26, 2025, in Brockworth, England. Every year competitors and spectators from around the world gather for the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling competition that sees participants fling themselves down a steep hill in pursuit of a rolling seven-pound Double Gloucester cheese. Maya Ståhl of Team Sweden performs on the Balance Beam during day one of the 2025 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships on May 26, 2025, in Leipzig, Germany. Runners pose in front of pyramids as they participate in the One Run race on May 24, 2025, near the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Guillermo Arias / AFP / Getty A woman performs the traditional Calabaceado dance in front of the monumental fire during the 'XLIII Fiesta en la Mision' celebration in La Misión town, northern Ensenada, Baja California state, Mexico, on May 24, 2025. Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP / Getty An employee cleans mirrored floors at the Mahanakhon SkyVerse digital art exhibition at King Power Mahanakhon in Bangkok on May 26, 2025. Asif Hassan / AFP / Getty A worker cleans the lines of a cooling tower at an ice factory on a hot summer day in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 29, 2025. Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Attendees sit inside a Citroën 2CV car modified into a swimming pool during the 30th national rally of the Citroën 2CV Clubs de France association in Agde, France, on May 29, 2025. Several Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles head into the first turn as they compete in the Wienie 500, following the practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23, 2025. Jorge SIlva TPX / Jorge Silva / Reuters Dancers from the Cia K dance company perform an aerial circus act while suspended from a zip line during the Virada Cultural event in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, on May 25, 2025. Christophe Archambault / AFP / Getty Commuters stand on a nacelle suspended from the metal deck of an aerial ferry bridge to cross the Charente river in Rochefort, France, on May 22, 2025. Rochefort's aerial ferry bridge was inaugurated in 1900, allowing people to cross the river without disturbing maritime navigation to and from the city's dockyard. It was used as the main crossing way over the Charente river until 1967, and since 1994 has carried pedestrians and cyclists, as the viaduct of the Charente estuary opened nearby in 1991. An aerial view of high-rise buildings in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, on May 24, 2025 Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, on May 18, 2025. Alberta Wildfire / Reuters Smoke rises from the Edith Lake wildfire (SWF076), which forced the evacuation of the nearby town of Swan Hills, Alberta, Canada, seen in an aerial photograph on May 25, 2025. Punit Paranjpe / AFP / Getty A man pushes his bike through a flooded street after heavy rain in Mumbai on May 26, 2025. Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty A dog jumps into a pool at the 'Dogs and Fun' fair at the Westfalenhallen congress center in Dortmund, Germany, on May 23, 2025. Jeff Pachoud / AFP / Getty A young female Malay bear cub plays in the enclosure she shares with her mother, Tally, at the Saint-Martin-la-Plaine zoological park in France, on May 27, 2025. An Atlantic Puffin is seen on Wales's Skomer Island on May 22, 2025. Cecilia Antonio feeds a hummingbird at Catia Lattouf's apartment, where Lattouf holds a makeshift clinic to care for hummingbirds in Mexico City, on May 20, 2025. Wang Gang / Oriental Image / Reuters A dinosaur installation on Nanjing Road draws people in Shanghai, on May 26, 2025. Jennifer Lopez performs during the 2025 American Music Awards, in Las Vegas, on May 26, 2025. Fang Dongxu / VCG / Getty A flying-saucer-shaped structure stands at the entrance to Alibaba Jiangsu headquarters in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on May 25, 2025. Fida Hussain / AFP / Getty Farmers transport wheat straw heavily loaded on tractor along a road in Jacobabad, Sindh province, Pakistan, on May 29, 2025. A participant lies in a bin of green plastic balls at the 2025 Re:publica digital-society festival on May 26, 2025, in Berlin. Demonstrators clash with Italian police during a protest against a new security decree, in Via del Tritone, in Rome, on May 26, 2025. Javier Torres / AFP / Getty This aerial view shows wind damage following the passage of a tornado in the city of Puerto Varas, Region de los Lagos, Chile, on May 26, 2025. An unusual tornado rated as category EF-1 on the Fujita scale hit the city, leaving eight people injured and some 150 homes affected, authorities said. Senay Ilhan and Ulku Ozman breathe in air from beehives, using ventilators, in hopes of recovering from ailments at a facility owned by the beekeeper Huseyin Ceylan in Karaburun, in Turkey's Aegean-coastal province of İzmir, on May 22, 2025. Abdel Majid Bziouat / AFP / Getty Camels roam next to wind turbines that will supply power to a desalination plant under construction in Dakhla in the disputed Western Sahara, mostly controlled by Morocco, on May 26, 2025. Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
DW
7 days ago
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- DW
German rolls past rivals in madcap English cheese chase – DW – 05/26/2025
A Munich man has tasted victory for a second time in one of England's quirkiest competitive pastimes. Tom Kopke says he risked everything to emerge as champion in the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling race. It was hard cheese for local competitors in one of England's most curious sporting traditions, as Bavarian Tom Kopke emerged victorious for the second year running. The unofficial Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake in the English county of Gloucestershire drew thousands of spectators and scores of competitors to chase a speeding wheel of dairy product down a steep grassy slope. 'I worked for this — It's my cheese' Dry weather made the 50 gradient incline more treacherous than usual, with racers risking bumps bruises — and even worse — to catch up with the coveted 3.6-kilogram (8-pound) Double Gloucester cheese. And of the rivals who tumbled and rolled headlong down the hill to claim the prestigious first-race prize, 23-year-old Kopke was first across the finish line. His prize? The cheese itself. "It was crazy. This year was different," adding: "Last year the hill was muddy and this year it was dry and dangerous and people got injured. I shut off my brain and went for it." Munich resident Kopke's love of the cheese-rolling contest hasn't soured since his last year's event, with the YouTuber determined to hang on to his dairy dash crown. "All the people at the top said they were going to steal my title but this is mine," he said. "I worked for this. I risked my life for this. It's my cheese. Back to back." Several races are run at each annual cheese-rolling, but the first men's race is the most prestigious, garnering the most media attention, featuring seasoned competitors and past champions. The women's race was won by 20-year-old Ava Sender Logan who was running in support of the Refugee Community Kitchen — a group that helps displaced people in northern France and homeless communities in London and Edinburgh. Is cheese rolling dangerous? While there are other cheese-rolling traditions in Britain, the event at Cooper's Hill is the most famous and frenetic. The event is no picnic, with 23-time champion Chris Anderson having suffered torn calf muscles, sprained ankles and bruised kidneys. Though the official version was scrapped in 2010 over safety concerns, fans have kept the tradition alive with a rebel race — now a chaotic but beloved annual fixture. The cheese rolls 200 yards downhill, and competitors do their best to keep up. The races, which date back centuries and likely began as a springtime ritual, have grown into a global curiosity. After 15,000 turned up in 2009, organizers pulled the plug — but the locals and thrill-seekers kept it rolling, with police now observing rather than intervening.
