Pamplona, Spain – Two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight others injured Tuesday as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of this northern Spanish city on the first bull run of the San Fermin festival, organizers said.
The San Fermin press office said a 38-year-old American identified only by his initials, M.W.O., was gored in the armpit and a 27-year-old Californian identified by the initials D.M.O. was also gored. A 30-year-old Briton with the initials A.B.O. was gored in the groin area. None of the three was said to be in serious condition.
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Three other Americans were among the eight others injured, most with bruises sustained in falls and crowd crushes during the nationally-televised run that lasted just over two minutes.
In its first report after the run, the Spanish Red Cross only had details of one person being gored and six people injured.
The daily run sees people dashing with six bulls along a narrow, 930-yard (850-meter) course from a holding pen to the city’s bull ring. The bulls are then killed by professional matadors in bullfights each afternoon. The nine-day fiesta in Pamplona, which features 24-hour street partying, was made famous in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands of foreign tourists.
Bull runs are a traditional part of summer festivals across Spain. Dozens of people are injured each year in the runs, most in falls.
Two men have died recently after being gored by bulls in Spanish festivals — one Saturday in the eastern town of Grao de Castellon and another June 24 in the southwestern town of Coria.
In all, 15 people have died from gorings in San Fermin since record-keeping began in 1924.
If you want to be crazy enough to run in front of a bull so be it
In Spanish bull is toro
Reminds us from the times of the inquisition. Those cursed spaniards wouldn’t hold back from the most gruesome killings. Fighting bulls, burning jews.
משגעים.
“A 30-year-old Briton […] was gored in the groin area.”
If he didn’t die from that injury, he would be marching in the rainbow parades from now on instead of going to Pamplona. Ironic, isn’t it?
הכל נברא אלא בשביל ישראל
This gives a real understanding to שור שנגח!
You guys are so predictable and have such under-developed thought processes.
Participating in a bull-run fills you with such adrenaline and makes you feel so alive. I highly recommend it, it sounds like some of you commenters would benefit from leaving your parents boiler room and seeing the great outdoors.
Makes me so proud to be a human.