With the terrifying legend that accompanies them and it turns out that the bulls from the legendary Miura ranch looked like submissive lambs in this eighth and last running of the bulls of San Fermín, fast and clean, which has allowed the young men to have starred in eye-catching races throughout the journey, not exempt from falls and accidents like every morning.
Only two bruises, one in the right arm and the other in the left, have been counted, according to the first medical report, which gives an idea of the cleanliness of the race.
The San Fermín 2022 festivities come to an end this Thursday with the eighth running of the bulls, in which the bulls from the Miura ranch have chased hundreds of runners through the streets of Pamplona. JUAN MEDINA (REUTERS)
It was a fast ride, two minutes and sixteen seconds.
Villar Lopez (EFE)
The legendary Sevillian bulls have left two injured with bruises on their arms, but none by horn. Daniel Fernandez (EFE)
They are six morlacos between 520 and 625 kilos, three of them red, one Sardinian, one dark purple mulatto and one black, all of them born between December 2017 and January 2018. PABLO LASAOSA
Miura's is the herd that has the most participations in the running of the bulls, 53 to date, and its behavior in the race does not usually leave people injured by antlers, although on their last visit, in 2019, three were gored. ANDER GILLENEA (AFP )
In the afternoon, for the first time in the history of the bullring in Pamplona, a bullfighter will deal alone with the six bulls that run the running of the bulls.
It will be the Mallorcan Antonio Ferrera.
Jesus Diges (EFE)
The day will end at midnight in the Plaza Consistorial, when the traditional Pobre de mí will end the San Fermín festivities until next year. JUAN MEDINA (REUTERS)
A young man dodges the horns during the eighth and last running of the bulls of the Sanfermines. Jesus Diges (EFE)
From the infirmary of the bullring it has been reported that there has been no assistance.
In the image, Red Cross personnel attend to an injured Moor during the eighth running of the bulls.
JUAN MEDINA (REUTERS)
It has been what could be called a design bull run, designed for the enjoyment of the daring participants, with the intrinsic danger that the presence of the brave bull in the street entails, but without the drama of the gorings of the animal that is intercepted in his way, he stops or turns around and defends himself or attacks those who annoy him.
On this occasion, the Miura bulls have taken shelter around the meek ones, they have isolated themselves from the noisy party that accompanied them and thus have seen the light of the square.
Today, Thursday, the herd of halters has decided to assert themselves as protagonists of the running of the bulls and not as mere troupes or companions of the headline bulls of each day.
Thus, the leading halter has indicated, as every morning, the direction of the door after the shock of the rocket, and alone has started the uphill of Santo Domingo full of energy.
He has fought hard, or perhaps because of the hard training during the preceding seven days, not to lose the head of the group at all times.
Another colleague approached him on Calle Mercaderes, and the two of them were ready, aware of the deep Estafeta curve and the hard planks on the corner, and stuck to the right of the road to enter the straight street with an advantage over the bulls that were at their heels.
As the
miuras
are veterans -not in vain this is the fifty-fourth time they have run in San Fermín-, and social networks must work like a charm on the Seville estate of Zarariche, the bulls of 2022 came with the lesson learned and avoided crash into the fence.
Thus, with their bodies intact from blows, they restarted their march up Estafeta, without ever losing contact with the meek ones, who were still in the lead, so proud of themselves, and making their way through the crowd of young men and women who tried to pass on to the posterity of a good race in front of the fearsome miuras.
More than one bit the dust on the road, but the matter did not escalate according to what the health services have reported.
The descent into the alley and the entrance to the plaza occurred without incident, like a perfectly prepared walk, and so, two minutes and sixteen seconds after the Santo Domingo corrals opened, the plaza corrals closed.
There, after the morning shock, the last tenants of this fair are resting: Chaparrito, Bodeguero, Ahechador, Rifador, Harnero and Espadero, weighing 520 to 625 kilos, who will be fought this afternoon alone by the bullfighter from Extremadura Antonio Ferrera , who has decided to donate his fees to the social work of the Casa de Misericordia
After this eighth confinement, the dismantling of the fence will begin, made up of 900 posts, 2,700 planks, 4,000 wedges, 120 palisades and 80 gates
,
all fastened with about 10,000 screws.
This is the first indication that the 2022 San Fermín Fair has come to an end, which will be officially formalized at 12 tonight with the traditional
Pobre de mí
from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
