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Ambrosio Spinola
03-17-2007, 04:02 PM
I was about to make a joke about the big balls one needs to do this...but after watching the video..well..like better not...ouch!

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1450758620070315

MADRID (Reuters) - If Spanish matador Fernando Cruz ever has children, he'll have doctors at the Valencia bullring to thank after he suffered a double goring.

Cruz, 25, is recovering in hospital after the second bull of Tuesday's corrida caught him in the upper thigh, throwing him into the air, and gored him in the groin once he hit the ground.

Newspapers reproduced the eye-watering bulletin issued by surgeons at the bullring after a two-hour operation and film of the incident was played on the main evening news.

"Fernando Cruz is suffering from two horn wounds of 25 centimeters in length each. One involves the fibers of the abductor muscle and dissects the femoral artery, the other involves the scrotal area and eviscerates both testicles."

Cruz was sitting up in his hospital bed on Wednesday. Astonishingly, he is expected to be back in action in around three weeks.


http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=23493
TruthSeeker
03-17-2007, 07:48 PM
Why is this archaic sport still being played? I know it's a part of Spanish culture, but anyone who dresses up in 18th century-type clothing and antagonizing an already mentally-deranged bull with a red cape is just asking for it.
Ambrosio Spinola
03-17-2007, 07:51 PM
Call it heritage if you will. Our closest link to Classical rome :D

Not only Spain does this. You can also find it in Mexico and South France.

Never gone myself but you have to give it to the matadores.
Petr
03-17-2007, 08:07 PM
I have always considered bullfighting to be a dumb sport.


Petr
Ambrosio Spinola
03-17-2007, 08:18 PM
I understand its hard to replicate with reindeers :D

But you get to sit nude with other guys in a wooden steaming hut, hit each other on the buttocks with bush branches and then run nude into some Ice hole...dumb?
TruthSeeker
03-17-2007, 08:25 PM
I understand its hard to replicate with reindeers :D

But you get to sit nude with other guys in a wooden steaming hut, hit each other on the buttocks with bush branches and then run nude into some Ice hole...dumb?

That's a Canadian thing, I suspect. Of course, I could be wrong, it could be Alaskan. :confused:
Ambrosio Spinola
03-17-2007, 08:27 PM
Petr is descended of the brave Finns who did not want to finish off Lenningrad in 1941 and helped thus with their own defeat in 1944 :D