A tale of two gorings

Bullfighting , Journalism , Spain Jul 25, 2014 No Comments

Eight people were gored in this year’s encierros, what we know in English as the running of the bulls, in Pamplona, Spain.

One was an Australian, 25-year-old Jason Gilbert, whose leg was torn open from the thigh to the hip by a 595kg Miura bull, “Olivito”, on the last day of the fiesta. After catching Gilbert on Estafeta, the longest and straightest of the encierro‘s sections, the bull chased him back around the famous dead-man’s curve and proceeded to gore him again through the abdomen and the chest, puncturing a lung.

Another causality was the fantastic young American bull-runner, Bill Hillmann, 32, a former Golden Gloves boxing champion and author. With ten years’ experience running with bulls in Pamplona, CuĂ©llar, San Sebastian de los Reyes and elsewhere, Hillmann was attempting to lead a suelto, a bull that had been separated from the herd, up the street and into the ring when a first-time runner pushed him over and allowed the animal to take him through the thigh.
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Both men have received a good deal of local and international media attention in the wake of their cornadas, albeit for different reasons.

Read the full article at The Drum.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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