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Last Day of Running with the Bulls |
| Posted by Administrator (admin) on Jul 16 2008 |
The number of injured (officially) in this years Pamplona Running of the bulls comes to a gran total of 45! And this in 8 days, with a daily run of 2-4 minutes in the narrow streets to the Bullfighting Ring of Pamplona.
A Dane and a Briton was among the five people injured on the last day of the annual Running of The Bulls in Pamplona, Navarra.
The Danish man was rushed to hospital with a neck injury along with a 31-year-old Briton who had an injury to his collar bone. The three Spanish men suffered vaious injuries from falls or collisions. Luckily no one was gored b a bull, which is considered to be the worst injury attainable, from running in a pack of thousands of people and joined by 4-7 stressed giant-size creatures; The Spanish Bulls, weighing in the access of 700 kilograms each.
3 Britons, 16 Americans, 29 Spanish and individuals from Australia, Denmark, Colombia, Ghana, Greece, South Africa, Romania, South Korea and New Zealand were injured in some way or another this year.
Monday, the final day, saw fewer runners in the streets compared to the previous days.
Most likely because most of the tourist has returned from their holidays and that Monday is a working day in Spain...
Last changed: Jul 16 2008 at 16:17
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