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A woman, gored by a Miura fighting bull during the last running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, is recovering from serious injuries. (Photo: Reuters)
A woman gored during Spain's annual San Fermin festival in Pamplona is in "very grave" condition after the bull's horn pierced her back and punctured her right lung. The 23-year-old Australian woman, identified only by her initials J. E. was attacked Sunday by the Miura bull as she clung to the wooden barrier just outside the entrance of the bull ring. The woman gored by the bull also suffered multiple rib fractures. It was the final bull run of the 2013 festival.
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The Australian reports that the woman gored in Spain was from New South Wales, a state along Australia's East Coast which includes the Sydney metropolitan area.
According to AP, women hardly ever get gored during the San Fermin festival, mainly because most of the runners are men. One broadcaster told AP that only two other women had been injured by bulls in recent festival. There was even a ban on female bull runners up until 1974.
Bull goring injuries are not uncommon during Spain's San Fermin festival. During this year's bull run, a number of runners, like the woman gored in the back, were critically injured and hospitalized. There was a 35-year-old American man from Ohio who was gored in the stomach and was recovering from "rectal perforation." Another man was gored several times in the groin and thigh (the brutal goring was even caught on camera ). Twenty-year-old Patrick Eccles from the University of Utah had his spleen removed after a bull gored him on Friday.
The annual San Fermin festival in Spain is a nine day celebration in the city of Pamplona, a city located about 243 miles southwest of Madrid and the historical capital city of Navarre. Made popular outside Spain by Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises, the San Fermin festival draws over a million visitors every year, and thousands of thrill-seekers take part in the famous running of the bulls. From Euro News :
The bull run is believed to date to the 13th century but is known to have continued virtually every year since 1592, when the festival was shifted from September to July. People are thought to have joined the running herd sometime in the 1800s.
According to Euro News, the last death from a bull goring was in 2009 when a 27-year-old from Madrid was gored in the neck.
International Business Times reports that Miura bulls are the fastest bulls in Spain and are trumpeted for their size and agility. They can weigh more than 1,500 pounds and are known for their speed; it takes just two minutes and 16 seconds for the bulls to make the half-mile sprint from the bull's stables to the central bull arena. Miura bulls are so well-renowned in Spain that they even inspired legendary Italian car maker Ferruccio Lamborghini to name one of his famed sports cars after the beast.
The Young Turks reports on bull gorings during Spain's famous festival:
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Australian Woman Gored During Running Of The Bulls' Final Day In Spain (PHOTOS)
PAMPLONA, Spain -- A bull gored an Australian woman and left her seriously injured during the final bull run of this year's annual San Fermin festival in Spain on Sunday. Four other runners were hospitalized with cuts and bruises.
The 23-year-old woman, identified only as J. E. was gored in the back and suffered multiple rib fractures and damage to her right lung that left her in "very grave" condition after an operation at Navarra Hospital, said the regional government that organizes the festival.
The Australian was struck by a massive Miura bull as she clung to wooden barriers outside the bullring entrance, said regional health authority spokesman Javier Sesma.
It is very rare for women to be gored during the annual festival since most of the runners are men. Javier Solano, a San Fermin expert working for national broadcaster TVE, said records showed only two other women had been injured by gorings in the recent history of the fiesta.
The four injured runners who were tossed by bulls or fell as they ran were identified as a 39-year-old man from California, a 23-year-old man from Madrid and two men from Navarra, said the regional government organizers. None of those injuries were serious.
Dramatic confrontations between runners and bulls had occurred during the previous two days of the festival.
A 19-year-old Spaniard who had stopped breathing after being crushed by large pileup of fallen runners on Saturday has recovered consciousness and begun to breathe without mechanical assistance, Sesma said Sunday.
A 35-year-old American man from Cleveland, Ohio, who was gored by a bull Saturday was recovering "favorably" from a "rectal perforation" that affected his abdomen and a kidney, said a Navarra Hospital statement.
Patrick Eccles, a 20-year-old University of Utah student who was gored Friday, was in a stable condition and improving after having had his spleen removed, the statement said.
Miura bulls, which can weigh 695 kilograms (1,530 pounds), are renowned as Spain's largest and fastest fighting bulls, and Sunday's bull run was quick, taking 2 minutes, 16 seconds to cover 928 yards (850 meters) from stables just outside Pamplona's medieval stone wall to the central bullring.
Despite the animals' size and strength, experts admire Miuras for their explosive acceleration, stamina and grace, characteristics that inspired legendary Italian car maker, the late Ferruccio Lamborghini, to name one of his iconic sports cars after the breed.
The San Fermin festival, which honors the patron saint of this northern city, dates back to the late 16th century and is also known for its all-night street parties, where copious quantities of red wine from Navarra and Rioja are consumed and sprinkled around.
The festivities were made famous by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."
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Associated Press writer Harold Heckle contributed from Madrid.
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Woman gored, The woman, an Australian, was gored in the back and suffered multiple rib fractures and damage to her right lung that left her in a “very grave” condition, according to government officials.
The annual San Fermin bull run is often dangerous, with panicked bulls chased through crowded streets, and was criticised by animal rights groups again this year, who damned the “tormenting and butchering” of bulls.
During the first two days of the festival, a 19-year-old Spaniard stopped breathing after being crushed in a large group of fallen runners, but has since recovered consciousness and begun breathing without assistance.
Two American men were also injured. A 20-year-old Utah university student was gored but is now in a stable condition after having his spleen removed and a 35-year-old American man was said to be recovering favourably from a “rectal perforation”.
Around 200 participants are injured each year, and the bull runs have claimed 15 lives since 1924, with the most recent death, that of a 62-year-old Spaniard, occurring in 2003.
Since most of the runners are men, it is rare for a woman to be injured.
The run sees six Miura bulls, which can weigh 695 kilograms, chased each morning and then killed by bullfighters in the evening, usually in a slow and torturous manner.
The League Against Cruel Sports, a charity, last week criticised British tour operators that sell packages to bullfights and San Fermin.
It blamed “lads magazines” for "sensationalising the event” and glossing over “the reality as to how the bull run ends”. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also urged travellers to stay away from the event.
Nearly 1,000 Telegraph Travel readers voted in our poll last week asking whether or not the running of the bulls should be banned. The majority thought yes, with 65 per cent saying it should be, as opposed to 35 per cent thinking the tradition should continue.
The San Fermin festival runs for one week and was made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises". It attracts thousands of foreign visitors who attend its all-night drinking parties, when red wine from Rioja and Navarra is consumed in great quantities in the streets.
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