Athletes fall during a bull run at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, July 11, 2022.
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Athletes fall during a bull run at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, July 11, 2022.
Alvaro Barrientos / AP
PAMPLONA, Spain – A spokesman for the Spanish Red Cross said three people suffered fatigue and three others suffered bruises during an intense Thursday bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival on Monday. .
This is the first run with gorings in the festival so far this year. There are three more daily runs left before it ends on Thursday.
Red Cross worker José Aldaba told Spanish National Television that one man was gored in the street, while two others were stabbed in the end by the horns of a bull inside the bull. running track.
Television footage showed one bull repeatedly tossing and ramming a runner into the wooden railings at the edge of the ring and then ramming another one behind his legs.
The spectacle lasted just over three minutes as hundreds of joggers, mostly men, raced wildly ahead and joined six fighting bulls as they raced through the northern city’s cobblestone streets. this.
Three other runners were treated for injuries caused by falls during the run.
The run ended at Pamplona’s bullring, where later in the day bulls were killed by professional bullfighters.
Tens of thousands of foreign visitors to the Pamplona festival were made known to the English-speaking world through Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”.
The adrenaline rush of the morning bull run is followed by partying day and night.
