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Mint
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara flashback? The real-life iconic Pamplona bull run just wrapped up in Spain
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara flashback? The real-life iconic Pamplona bull run just wrapped up in Spain | Check photos 7 Photos . Updated: 14 Jul 2025, 11:32 PM IST Share Via Over a decade ago, Zoya Akhtar's 2011 movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD) immortalised Pamplona's San Fermin bull run, with its iconic scene of three friends racing in white and red. As the world-famous Spanish festival wraps up today, we take a look at the last-day scenes 1/7Revellers sprint next to Miura fighting bulls during the Encierro (running of the bulls), at the bullring entrance, during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain July 14, 2025. (REUTERS) 2/7Back in 2011, Bollywood fans went gaga over this scene from the San Fermin bull run. Except, this iconic moment, which fans still cherish, is from Zoya Akhtar's movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 3/7This year marked the eighth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 14, 2025. Thousands of people every year attend the week-long festival and its famous encierros or bull runs, every day at 8:00 a.m. through the narrow streets of the old town over an 850 meters (yard) course while runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored (AFP) 4/7A participant is hit during games with a young cow in the bullring after the eigth running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 14, 2025. Thousands of people every year attend the week-long festival and its famous encierros or bull runs, every day at 8:00 a.m. through the narrow streets of the old town over an 850 meters (yard) course while runners ahead of them try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (AFP) 5/7Revellers watch as a wild cow jumps a barrier at the bullring, at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, July 14, 2025. REUTERS/Albert Gea (REUTERS) 6/7Moment when a wild cow jumps over revellers at the bullring. At least two people were taken to the hospital with contusions, according to emergency services, reported Reuters (REUTERS)
Toronto Sun
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Sun
At Pamplona's San Fermin festival, a tiny minority of those who run with bulls are women
Published Jul 13, 2025 • 2 minute read Participants run ahead of La Palmosilla breed bulls during the seventh running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 13, 2025. Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP via Getty Images PAMPLONA, Spain — Dressed in the traditional bull runner's garb of a white shirt and red neck-scarf, Yomara Martinez, 30, sprinted in the death-defying morning run or 'encierros' taking place this week in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Yet despite being in a crowd of thousands, Martinez was among only a handful of women daredevils running with the stampeding bulls at the San Fermin Festival. 'At the end of the day, the bull doesn't know about sexes, age or body shape,' Martinez said. 'It doesn't matter if you are woman.' Every year, thousands of people line the medieval streets of Pamplona to witness the centuries-old tradition of running with bulls. Many watch from balconies and wooden barricades along the course. Millions more follow the spectacle on television. Women bull runners are rare, though Martinez and other women taking part in the adrenaline-fueled tradition as more than mere spectators say it's growing in popularity. 'There are times I feel small. And ask myself 'what am I doing here?' Because, although you may not want to, you do feel slightly inferior because of your physique,' said 32-year-old Sara Punal, an administrator who took part in Sunday's run. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'But in the moment, you are all equal,' Punal said of the run. The bulls pound along the twisting cobblestone streets after being led by six steers. Up to 4,000 runners take part in each bull run, which takes place over 846 meters (2,775 feet) and can last two to four minutes. The expert Spanish runners try to sprint just in front of the bull's horns for a few seconds while egging the animal on with a rolled newspaper. Gorings are not rare, but many more people are bruised and injured in falls and pileups with each other. 'I think many have a desire to see what it feels like but they don't try because of fear,' said Paula Lopez, 32, a shop assistant who also took part in a run earlier in the week. Lopez said she grew up in the masculine world of bull fighting. She wasn't fazed by how few women take part in the event. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'It's complicated, but it is pretty exciting,' Lopez said. The event's reputation took a hit years ago following complaints by women about having suffered sexual harassment and abuse from revelers. In 2016, five men raped an 18-year-old woman during the festival in an infamous case that sparked an outcry across Spain. The men, who had a WhatsApp group named 'La Manada,' or 'The Animal Pack,' were imprisoned for 15 years by the Supreme Court in 2019. Since then, organizers have said they've stepped up security measures. Women didn't participate in the bull runs until 1975 due to a decree repealed one year earlier that prohibited women, children and the elderly from being in the streets where the bulls run during the festival. The spectacle was made internationally famous by Ernest Hemingway's classic 1926 novel 'The Sun Also Rises,' about American bohemians wasting away in Europe. — Naishadham reported from Madrid. Golf Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA Toronto Raptors Toronto & GTA
Time of India
12-07-2025
- Time of India
Five injured as bulls charge through Pamplona in San Fermin's high-speed run
Five people were injured on July 12 during the sixth day of Pamplona's San Fermin festival. Bulls from the José Escolar ranch charged through the city's narrow streets in just 2 minutes and 42 seconds. Four of the injured were taken to local hospitals. Dressed in white with red scarves, hundreds of runners dashed ahead of the bulls along the 875-meter course. The San Fermin festival remains Spain's most famous and dangerous bull-running event, attracting thousands of thrill-seekers every summer Show more Show less
Bangkok Post
08-07-2025
- Bangkok Post
Man gored and seven others bruised in Spain's bull running festival
PAMPLONA — A man was gored and seven others lightly injured on Tuesday, the second day of Pamploma's San Fermin festival in which thousands of people line the mediaeval city's narrow streets for the centuries-old tradition of running with bulls. The man who was gored, identified only as being older than 25, was injured by a bull horn under his right armpit, a spokesperson for the city emergency services said. "At this time, he is under observation but is in stable condition," she told reporters. The seven others suffered bruises and contusions, some in the shoulder or head. In the festival's "encierros", or bull runs, fighting bulls are set loose in the streets and then race to reach the bullfight arena. Hundreds of aficionados, many wearing traditional white shirts with red scarves, run with them. On Tuesday morning, one of the bulls stopped in the middle of his run and charged the runners for several tense minutes. The festival, which gained international fame from Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel " The Sun Also Rises", lasts for one week in early July. articipants are occasionally gored at the hundreds of such bull-running fiestas in Spain every year. Other injuries are common. At least 16 runners have lost their lives at the Pamploma festival down the years, the last in 2009. As well as the morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights, the San Fermin festival features round-the-clock singing, dancing and drinking by revellers. There are also religious events in honour of the saint.
Daily Maverick
08-07-2025
- Daily Maverick
One man gored and seven others bruised in Spain's bull running festival
The man who was gored, identified only as being older than 25, was injured by a bull horn under his right armpit, a spokesperson for the city emergency services said. 'At this time, he is under observation but is in stable condition,' she told reporters. The seven others suffered bruises and contusions, some in the shoulder or head. In the festival's 'encierros', or bull runs, fighting bulls are set loose in the streets and then race to reach the bullfight arena. Hundreds of aficionados, many wearing traditional white shirts with red scarves, run with them. On Tuesday morning, one of the bulls stopped in the middle of his run, and charged the runners for several tense minutes. The festival, which gained international fame from Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel 'The Sun Also Rises', lasts for one week in early July. Participants are occasionally gored at the hundreds of such bull-running fiestas in Spain every year. Other injuries are common. At least 16 runners have lost their lives at the Pamplona festival down the years, the last in 2009. As well as the morning bull runs and afternoon bullfights, the San Fermin festival features round-the-clock singing, dancing and drinking by revellers. There are also religious events in honour of the saint.
