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July 14, 2014
- Duration: 4:56
- Livestock: Miura
- Injured: 3 per bull horn
Like Ahab and Mody Dick , Jason and Olivito were destined to seek and find each other, to live together for a few moments that would mark them forever. The animal would go down in the history of San Fermin as one of the fiercest who ever set foot on the streets of Pamplona . The man, as the protagonist of one of the most terrifying catches remembered.
That July 14, 2014 , the last day of San Fermin, it dawned fresh and with the floor wet from the rain. The bulls announced, the classics to put the finishing touch to the Sanfermines, the Miuras, specially selected by the organizers for their well-earned fame in the race. It is not that they are meek, but that they usually run in twins, ignoring the thousands of external stimuli that surround them.
The race was very fast but without major incidents in its first part. Three black bulls and one cardanian in front, taking positions, and the two chestnuts behind. They thus arrived at the curve of the Estafeta, without halters ahead , which together with the humidity of the ground caused the fall of some of the specimens. The last of them was called Olivito , 595 kilos, salinero cape, a light mix of brown and white hair. He tripped over his pack mates and tangled his legs between the planks of the curve. When he got up, he did not have the immediate reference of his confinement brothers and shot a glance at the group of grooms on the right side of the street.
There she found Jason Gilbert, a young Australian who was visiting the San Fermin for the first time. He came from the south of the country, in Adelaide Hills, where he lived on a farm. Light bermuda shorts, white and red t-shirt and Nike shoes with phosphor green sole.
From the moment their eyes met, it seemed that there was no one else on the street for Olivito than poor Jason. In the first rush, he rammed him head-on and threw him into the shop window on the right side of the curve, as villains fly with the blows of Marvel superheroes. Already on the ground, the miura launched a first hook that burst the board that protected the window, and in the second he threaded his fine left python in the thigh of the Australian. One-two, one-two, like that three more times, now without causing injury.
"When he caught me the first time, it was a horrible feeling. It all happened very quickly, in four short seconds. I think I am very lucky that I did not lose my life," the young man would later tell Australian television.
On instinct, Jason got up and started the race in the opposite direction of the march, towards Mercaderes. Behind him, Miura's bull did not forget the prey and pursued him viciously, with no eyes for anything else. The print of the Australian running with the skin of his left thigh hanging was Dantesque.
Thus he arrived at the fence, where the runner tried to seek refuge , but there was Olivito again. He rammed it against the planks, literally, with gorings on the chest and abdomen. If it were not for the help he received from inside the fence, it seems that Olivito had never forgotten him. After losing his prey, the bull looked for another boy who was hanging from the fence, without actually hurting him, and in a huge show of force he put his kidneys in and lifted part of the fence from thick timbers.
On the way to the plaza
From there, the part of the route that was missing to complete seemed complicated. Especially if they made it easy for them. As he passed, he noticed one of those people who thought it was a good idea to be standing in a window six feet from the ground with a thud on his side. The miura threw three or four horns and brought him down from his shelter, but did not injure him. Just two meters away, another unscrupulous man stood like a stick in the door of a house. Of course, unconsciousness is very powerful.
Because the running of the bulls was not for the unconscious, but for experts, for runners with many tables with loose bulls. This is how they pulled the animal Pimpín Navascués, Jokin Zuasti, David Castander, David Rodríguez and many others. Suffering arreones, looks and feints of turning. They pulled the animal splendidly, trying to break it as little as possible, risking it to avoid new butcheries.
Jason was stitched behind. Three weeks after that last day of the San Fermin he was able to return to his farm where he was completely cured and without sequelae. And he assures every time he is asked that he has no intention of putting himself in front of a bull again.
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