{"id":602943,"date":"2026-05-25T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602943\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:18:10","slug":"cheese-rolling-2026-german-youtuber-tom-kopke-among-the-cheese-rolling-races-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602943\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheese rolling 2026: German YouTuber Tom Kopke among the cheese rolling races winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner&#8217;s cheese &#8216;belongs to Netherlands&#8217;published at 12:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:41 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c10b8ef4-91c0-4073-99d1-95ea99de5957.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Leigh Boobyer<br \/>Live page reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winner Niels, from the Netherlands, says he enjoyed the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was way better than I thought it was. I was so locked in up that hill. The adrenaline was so high. When the adrenaline is there, it&#8217;s fun. And we did it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I thought happened, happened. All the guys were going crazy fast in the beginning but they were beginning to fall in the middle. I knew it was going to happen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if you try to stay, and lean back and step at the last point and just go, you will win it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to bring it home. I&#8217;m going to taste it actually. It belongs to the Netherlands,&#8221; Niels adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if he will return to defend his title, he says yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winner&#8217;s cheese &#8216;belongs to Netherlands&#8217;published at 12:41 BST 12:41 BST Leigh BoobyerLive page reporter Winner Niels, from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}