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Sunday World
7 days ago
- General
- Sunday World
Irish man seriously injured after being gored in chest during Spanish bull run
The Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours An Irishman who was injured during a bull run in Spain on Saturday remains in hospital in a 'serious but stable condition'. The 43-year-old victim underwent four hours of surgery after he was gored in the chest by the bull during the San Fernando de Henares patron saint festivities near Madrid. According to local media, the running of the bulls took place at 11am on the Paseo de los Pinos. 'During the run, one of the bulls gored the young man in the chest that was described as 'strong and spectacular' by some witnesses, MiraCorredor reports. After he was treated at the scene, the Irishman was rushed by ambulance to Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, where he underwent emergency surgery for four hours. News in 90 Seconds - 3rd June 2025 By late afternoon, he was in the emergency room and was "stable and out of danger' while awaiting transfer to the ward, according to sources quoted by local media. The victim, described as a 'young man of Irish origin who has lived in Spain for several years' has reportedly suffered head trauma and 'possible retinal detachment' when he was thrown into the aur. A fan of bull runs, he regularly participates as a runner in these types of bullfights held throughout the country. Local media reports that San Fernando de Henares City Council has not provided any official information about what happened. The San Fernando de Henares bull runs are part of a broader celebration of the town's patron saint, San Fernando, and are consider an important part of the local cultural tradition. In Pamplona, which hosts the famous Running of the Bulls festival in Spain, one man was gored and another five rushed to hospital with trauma injuries last summer. A 37-year-old man from Beriáin near Pamplona, where the annual festival takes place every July, is believed to have suffered a gore injury to his palate. The other five casualties included a 54-year-old man from New York. All six runners who needed hospital treatment were men. since records began in 1910, some 16 people have been killed at the annual festival, which was made famous by 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel, The Sun Also Rises. The most recent death was in 2009 when 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno, from Madrid, was gored in the neck by a bull called Capuchino. Between 200 and 300 are usually injured each year at the festival during the bull runs.
Fox Sports
05-03-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls - Live Score - March 04, 2025
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USA Today
07-02-2025
- Science
- USA Today
Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that could prevent disaster.
Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that could prevent disaster. Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too close together. Crowd crushes have proven to be deadly in recent years. At the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas, 10 people were crushed to death. In 2010, nearly two dozen were killed as a crowd stampeded at the Love Parade, a techno-music festival in Duisburg, Germany. More than 150 died during a 2022 Halloween crowd surge in Seoul's nightlife district. And hundreds were killed outside Mecca in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in 2015. In a new study, researchers analyzed the movement of thousands of spectators attending the San Fermín festival that precedes the start of the Running of the Bulls each year in Pamplona, Spain. Starting in 2019, the team set up cameras each year at the festival, which draws more than 5,000 participants dressed in white to the Plaza Consistorial where people drink and dance until the crowd is too packed for them to move, according to the paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Typically, according to study author François Gu, researchers studying crowd movements try to track each individual to build their models but his team studied the crowd as one free flowing unit, like a gel. Using this method, Gu and his colleagues determined that every 18 seconds, sections of the crowd about 500 people strong unwittingly found themselves traveling in the same direction and making a circle. To determine if this phenomena repeated itself in more dire situations, the team then analyzed video of a crowd at the 2010 Love Parade,. Researchers found similar dynamics occurred before the stampede. Crowd surge: 10 people died at the Astroworld music festival in 2021. What happens now? These circular motions are likely the result of people moving sideways to avoid being pushed by the tens or hundreds of people around them, said Gu, a physicist at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. "So at some point, the whole crowd is gonna turn into on the right, on the left, and this creates this kind of oscillations," he said. Researchers only observed this phenomena in highly dense, confined crowds and how long the oscillations took depended on how long people were confined, said Gu. But once a crowd reaches a critical density, people spontaneously get very active which can be "very dangerous," Gu said. This increases the amplitude of the orbital motions ‒ meaning how fast and far people are walking in circles. Gu said its possible to detect this uptick up to 20 minutes before it occurs. Though it is hard to pick up on these movements from inside the crowd itself, he said outside observers could replicate his methodology during an event. "So our work can act as a detector of catastrophes," he said. But what's dangerous isn't the crowd itself, he said, its their uncontrolled motion. Even with what he's learned about crowd dynamics and the potential for disaster, Gu still recommended visiting the San Fermín festival. "A crowd can be dense, but can be also safe," he said.
USA Today
06-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
What's scarier: Pitching in the World Series or playing a PGA Tour pro-am? Players answer
What's scarier: Pitching in the World Series or playing a PGA Tour pro-am? Players answer Show Caption Hide Caption Golf fans at the Running of the Bulls at WM Phoenix Open An annual tradition, golf fans line up early to run to the 16th hole to claim a seat during the Waste Management Phoenix Open on Feb. 10, 2024. Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen are participating in the WM Phoenix Open pro-am. Both pitchers find the crowds and atmosphere at the Open more nerve-wracking than pitching in the World Series. Golf is a popular off-day activity for the Diamondbacks players, offering a relaxing escape from the pressures of baseball. Former Diamondbacks pitcher Archie Bradley highlighted golf as a way for retired players to maintain competition and routine. Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen have been in countless tight situations in their careers, including the World Series in 2023. But the tee box at the WM Phoenix Open is what intimidates them. Both participated in last year's short-lived Annexus Pro-Am and Kelly got a taste of the unique setup at No. 10. Golfers must shoot over the crowds to the next set of greens on the par 4 hole, which was a 'nerve-wracking' experience, Kelly said. 'I didn't realize how close those guys stand until I actually got up to the ball,' he said. 'All I told myself was to make sure I got it into the air so I don't kill anybody.' The closeness of the fans and the unrelenting nature of the Open is enough to have both players nervous for Wednesday's pro-am, where they will be alongside manager Torey Lovullo and teammate Corbin Burnes. 'I've been stepping on the mound since I was five, so that's natural to me,' Gallen said. 'Stepping on the tee box, I've only been playing legit for the last seven years. To kind of have a little gallery standing in the way is a little nerve-wracking, I'm not used to that. The first tee shot for me is a little more nerve-wracking, even on No. 16. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.' Outside of competition, golf is a way to get away from the game. During road trips, a large group will often try to sneak in a round on an off day. 'Our sport is somewhat calm in a sense of there's not a lot of ruckuses and you can relate baseball and golf,' pitcher Drey Jameson said. 'When we're playing golf, it's something where you can get out, it's nice and calm. There's not much effort in it. When you're in season, we're traveling around and it's easy on an off day to go out and play a round of golf.' For those who are finished with their playing career like reliever Archie Bradley, it's a big aspect of their next chapter. 'I think a lot of us find when you're not playing, it's a way to keep those competitive juices and keep things exciting and something to look forward to and kind of a routine," Bradley said. "That's the biggest thing we lose when we get done playing and golf is a very routine-oriented sport.' While on the Diamondbacks, Bradley was part of a group led by Zack Greinke. Greinke was on a six-year, $206.5 million deal with the Diamondbacks before the 2016 season and pitched parts of four seasons with them before being traded to Houston in July 2019. "When you're with good teammates like Zack Greinke and other guys, you get to play some really good courses across the country. You got to take advantage of that," Bradley said. While out with Greinke, Bradley saw him do stuff that "you just couldn't write down." "He would take a driver and hit on a par 3 on the green," Bradley said. "Whatever you imagine pitching, that's how he is golfing." Some of the current best players on the team, he said, include Tommy Henry, Brandon Pfaadt and Kelly. He's not sure about Gallen's skills. 'He thinks he's good, but I've never played with him specifically. We'll see,' Jameson said. Kelly is likely one of the more advanced players on the team as he's grown up in a golf household. 'My dad loves golf and I have an older brother — he's two years older than me — he loves golf,' Kelly said. 'I've had a golf club in my hand since I can remember. When I'm not on the field or at home, that's pretty much the only other place I go. I love being out here.' Kelly wasn't able to show off his game last year after last year's pro-am was called off early due to heavy rain. This year's sunny forecast provides hope for the field that features Arizona Cardinals great Larry Fitzgerald, Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber and former U.S. women's national team forward Carli Lloyd.
