07-07-2012, 11:04 AM
Thousands of runners raced ahead of six fighting bulls in the streets of the Spanish city of Pamplona for this year's San Fermin festival.
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Runners, in traditional white clothing and red kerchiefs around their necks, tripped over each other or fell in the mad daredevil annual rush along early morning dew-moistened slippery streets to the city's bull ring
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The 8 am runs take place daily until July 14 with each charge broadcast on state television. And then, on the afternoon of each day, the same bulls face matadors in the ring.
![[Image: Pamploma1_2270246k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma1_2270246k.jpg)
Since record keeping began in 1924, 15 people have been killed by bulls in the early morning festival runs. The most recent such tragedy came in 2009 when a young Spaniard was gored in the neck as he tried to escape a bull by sliding feet-first under a fence separating the course from the crowd watching the run. It was the first death at San Fermin in nearly 15 years.
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![[Image: Pamploma9_2270238k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma9_2270238k.jpg)
thankyou Ernest Hemingway!
![[Image: antonio-ordonez-in-bull-ring-at-el-escor...gway1.jpeg]](http://chestnuthilllocal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/antonio-ordonez-in-bull-ring-at-el-escorial-with-novelist-ernest-hemingway1.jpeg)
![[Image: Pamploma3_2270244k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma3_2270244k.jpg)
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Runners, in traditional white clothing and red kerchiefs around their necks, tripped over each other or fell in the mad daredevil annual rush along early morning dew-moistened slippery streets to the city's bull ring
![[Image: Pamploma_2270247k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma_2270247k.jpg)
![[Image: Pamploma4_2270243k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma4_2270243k.jpg)
The 8 am runs take place daily until July 14 with each charge broadcast on state television. And then, on the afternoon of each day, the same bulls face matadors in the ring.
![[Image: Pamploma1_2270246k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma1_2270246k.jpg)
Since record keeping began in 1924, 15 people have been killed by bulls in the early morning festival runs. The most recent such tragedy came in 2009 when a young Spaniard was gored in the neck as he tried to escape a bull by sliding feet-first under a fence separating the course from the crowd watching the run. It was the first death at San Fermin in nearly 15 years.
![[Image: Pamploma5_2270242k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma5_2270242k.jpg)
![[Image: Pamploma8_2270239k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma8_2270239k.jpg)
![[Image: Pamploma7_2270240k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma7_2270240k.jpg)
![75 75](https://mockforums.net/images/smilies/75.gif)
![[Image: Pamploma9_2270238k.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02270/Pamploma9_2270238k.jpg)
thankyou Ernest Hemingway!
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![[Image: antonio-ordonez-in-bull-ring-at-el-escor...gway1.jpeg]](http://chestnuthilllocal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/antonio-ordonez-in-bull-ring-at-el-escorial-with-novelist-ernest-hemingway1.jpeg)