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2026-07-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-
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Pamplona bull runner is gored in the face and 12 others injured as thrill-seekers test their mettle in Spanish festival
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One runner was gored in the face and many more were fortunate to not be seriously injured during a chaotic bull run at Spain's San Fermin festival on Saturday.
The six bulls and accompanying steers charged through crowds of thrill-seekers who packed the narrow street course in Pamplona.
The huge 600kg animals knocked bodies to the cobblestones, and stumbling runners caused several pileups during the two-and-a-half-minute run from the pen to the bull ring where bullfighters will kill the bulls later in the day.
One runner was pierced by a horn in the face, while 12 more people needed medical treatment for an assortment of knocks, according to the University of Navarra Hospital.
A black bull broke away from the pack early in the 875-meter (957-yard) run and plowed into a group of people, smacking one full in the side of the face with a horn.
It was not clear if that was the moment of the goring.
Many runners appeared completely unaware when bulls were breathing down their necks and, instead of trying to gore them, just shoved them out of the way.
Saturday's was the fifth morning run of the eight-day festival in northern Spain.
This year's festival comes 100 years since the publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel 'The Sun Also Rises,' whose publication launched the San Fermin festival to international fame.
The last death at San Fermin's bull runs occurred in 2009, but gorings and broken bones are common, partly due to the large number of novice bull runners and foreign tourists who join the experienced locals.
Thousands of people from around the world attend the week-long festival every year to take part in the famous encierros, in which the bulls are released at 8am to charge from their corral to the bullring along an 850-metre route through the city's old town.
Brits typically make up around 4 per cent of the international participants.
Runners attempt to stay as close to the animals as possible without falling or being gored.
Alongside the daily bull runs, it features parades, music, religious ceremonies and round-the-clock street festivities.
On Friday dramatic images showed runners sprinting through the narrow streets as they are chased by six charging bulls during the fourth run.
Other photographs capture runners lying on the cobbles desperately trying to shield themselves as bulls thunder past, with one man curling into a ball and covering his face.
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