Posts Tagged ‘san fermín’

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The encierro (running of the bulls) this morning in Pamplona’s San Fermín festival was a bit more violent than the others. They just announced on the news that one of the runners died after being gored in the neck. It was a pretty fast and crowded run, and one of the bulls (the smallest, at 550Kg or so) got a bit distracted and spent some time not running. There were another half a dozen serious injuries caused by the bulls’ horns (other injuries, of which there must be loads, mainly caused by falling over, are not reported as much). Nutters, the lot of them.

The whole run can be seen here…

What you don’t see in that link is the forty minutes of commentary afterwards, slow motion replays, commentators trying to identify if this guy or that guy had actually been gored or if the horns had missed him, the ambulance guys at work.