Thousands of thrill-seekers dashed alongside fighting bulls in the second bull-run of Pamplona's San Fermin festival today with just two people reported injured.
A Navarra Hospital statement said one Spaniard was hospitalized for injuries to the ribs while a Frenchman was treated for multiple bruises but later released.
No one was gored, making it a relatively clean run lasting 2 minutes, 14 seconds.
Two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight others injured in the first run yesterday. All but two Americans were released the same day.
One American still hospitalized was Mike Webster, a 38-year-old occupational therapist from Gainesville, Florida, who was gored in the armpit as he joined the bull-run in Pamplona for the 38th time in 11 years. He said yesterday he hadn't decided whether he'd run again.
The other was identified only by his initials, RHO, a 25-year-old from Tempe, Arizona who suffered facial bruising.
The nationally televised 8 am run sees people racing with six bulls and their guiding steer along a narrow 850-metre course from a holding pen to the city bull ring. The bulls are then killed by professional matadors in bullfights each afternoon.
The nine-day fiesta in Pamplona, which features 24-hour street partying, was made famous in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" and attracts thousands of foreign tourists.
Bull runs are a traditional part of summer festivals across Spain. Dozens are injured each year, mostly in falls.
Two men died recently after being gored by bulls in Spanish festivals one Saturday in the eastern town of Grao de Castellon and another June 24 in the southwestern town of Coria.
In all, 15 people have died from gorings in Pamplona since record-keeping began in 1924 for the San Fermin festival.
