{"id":544606,"date":"2026-07-11T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544606\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:53:09","slug":"runner-gored-in-face-at-spains-san-fermin-bull-run-festival-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/544606\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner gored in face at Spain\u2019s San Fermin bull run festival \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">One runner was gored in the face and many avoided serious injury  during a chaotic bull run at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\">Spain\u2019s<\/a> San Fermin festival on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The six bulls and accompanying steers charged through crowds  who packed the narrow street course in Pamplona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The huge animals knocked people 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">One runner was pierced by a horn in the face, and 12 others needed medical treatment for an assortment of injuries, according to the University of Navarra Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Revellers run alongside Jose Escolar&#x2019;s fighting bulls during the fifth running of the bulls in Pamplona. Photograph: Miguel Oses\/AP\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/P5M6KPFBIYBPTD3TZOVDP4QSGU.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Revellers run alongside Jose Escolar\u2019s fighting bulls during the fifth running of the bulls in Pamplona. Photograph: Miguel Oses\/AP <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A black bull broke away from the pack early in the 957-yard run and ploughed 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Many runners appeared unaware when bulls were breathing down their necks and, instead of trying to gore them, just shoved them out of the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/abroad\/generation-emigration\/san-fermin-pamplona-nine-hot-days-of-bull-runs-and-debauchery-1.2718218\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Fermin, Pamplona: Nine hot days of bull-runs and debaucheryOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Saturday\u2019s was the fifth morning run of the eight-day festival in northern Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">This year\u2019s festival comes 100 years since the publication of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s novel The Sun Also Rises, which launched the San Fermin festival to international fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The last death at San Fermin\u2019s bull runs was in 2009, but gorings and broken bones are common, partly because of the large number of novice bull runners and tourists who join the experienced locals. &#8211; AP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One runner was gored in the face and many avoided serious injury during a chaotic bull run at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,2846],"class_list":["post-544606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}