"3 injured during Pamplona bull run" Associated Press July 09, 2014
PAMPLONA, Spain — Three people were injured, one seriously, as thousands of daredevils raced alongside six fighting bulls in the second running of the bulls at Spain’s world-famous San Fermin festival Tuesday.
No one was gored but a Navarra regional government statement said a 23-year-old man from Nottingham, England, was in serious condition with chest injuries and rib fractures suffered during the frenzied dash through the narrow winding streets of this northern city.
The government said a Japanese man and a Spaniard were also treated in the hospital for minor injuries.
One person was gored in the opening run Monday.
Dozens of people are injured each year in the 8 a.m. runs along a 930-yard course from a holding pen to Pamplona’s bull ring. Most are hurt in falls.
Fifteen people have died from gorings since record-keeping began in 1924.
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"American author on book about surviving Pamplona’s bulls is gored at festival" Associated Press July 10, 2014
PAMPLONA, Spain — An American who co-authored the book ‘‘Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona’’ became one of their victims Wednesday when he was one of two men gored at the festival.
Bill Hillmann, a 32-year-old from Chicago and a longtime participant in the nine-day Pamplona street party, was gored twice in the right thigh during one of the daily bull runs, organizers said on their website.
The injury was serious but not life-threatening, the Navarra regional government said in a statement.
A 35-year-old Spaniard man from Valencia was also in serious condition after being gored in the chest during the same run on the festival’s third day, the statement said.
Photographs showed Hillmann — dressed in the San Fermin event’s traditional white with a red neckerchief — being gored on the ground by a black bull as other runners scattered.
Tension spiked when the bull became separated from the pack in the final stretch.
British writer Alexander Fiske-Harrison, one of Hillmann’s co-authors of the Pamplona book and a fellow runner Wednesday, said on his blog that the bull turned back and charged at runners.
The six fighting bulls run along a 930-yard course from a holding pen to Pamplona’s bull ring in a tense and dramatic few minutes immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘‘The Sun Also Rises.’’
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Spain has so many other problems right now, and yet this is what my ma$$ media focuses on -- again!?!?
I'm so sorry, dearly beloved readers, that I am sick of seeing and saying the same things over and over again, year after year. It's like they behave a rolodex in front of them. What did we do last year? I'm sick of reading stuff where the dates could be scrubbed out and it could be today or ten years ago. Sorry.
