Running of the bulls (or encierroin Spanish) is another freaky adventure
sports. Basically some bulls are let loose along the town’s streets and
participants have to run in front of them. Pamplona in Spain (mentioned
in Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and “Death in the Afternoon”) is
the most famous among all the encierros. Bollywood film ‘Zindagi Na
Milengi Dobara’ had featured shots of Pamplona that garnered praises as
well as criticisms. ‘Bull running’ has been for long engulfed in heated
debates between animal right activists – most notably by Peta who
organised a mock demonstration ‘running of the nudes’ every year to
oppose the game – and sports lovers. This apart around 300 people are
injured and several killed in ‘bull running’ annually.
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