Updated
Updated · The Guardian · Jul 14
Pamplona Bull Run Injures 57, Goring 2 as 86-Year-Old Brit Is Hospitalized
Updated
Updated · The Guardian · Jul 14

Pamplona Bull Run Injures 57, Goring 2 as 86-Year-Old Brit Is Hospitalized

3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 14

Summary

  • An 86-year-old British man from Halesowen was taken to hospital after the final Pamplona bull run with injuries to his hand, elbow and eyebrow; doctors said he was not believed badly hurt.
  • Two Spaniards were gored in Tuesday’s last run—an 18-year-old local in the left thigh and a 46-year-old man from Guadalajara in the chest—and neither was gravely injured.
  • Fifty-seven people were injured across the eight-day Sanfermines festival, where runners in white and red sprint ahead of six bulls over an 848.6-meter route to the bullring.
  • At least 16 people have died in the runs over the past 116 years, with the last fatality recorded in 2009.

Insights

A century after Hemingway, has Pamplona's bull run become a deadly tourist spectacle instead of a cultural tradition?
With growing bans on bullfighting, can Pamplona's world-famous festival survive without the bulls?