Women's Sports

Colt McCoy · #1 07-10-2007, 11:06 AM

Why bother?

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Women demand female Pamplona bull run, with cows

MADRID (Reuters) - Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls.

A student website, www.estudiln.net, set the ball rolling with its campaign "Cows want to run" which asks for a separate encierro, as the bull-runs are known, where only women are allowed to take part.

Women have been allowed to take part in the San Fermin bull-running for some years but they still represent a tiny minority of the thousands of runners who attempt to dodge 600-kilo bulls along an 800-metre course through the streets of Pamplona.

The students say it's only logical that women should have their own bull-run.

"Cows, as well as bulls, have four legs and a natural instinct to run," says their manifesto. "An encierro for cows, would put Pamplona at the vanguard of traditional fiestas with equality for men and women."

Organizers of the festival, which runs from July 7-14, have not responded to the suggestion.

And just what the late Ernest Hemingway, who made the bull-run in Pamplona internationally famous, would have thought will never be known.

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dlk9s · #2 07-10-2007, 01:59 PM

There should be a gay running of the bulls, too.

DrewDevil · #3 07-10-2007, 02:10 PM

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There should be a gay running of the steers, too.

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easiest FYP ever

RacersEdge · #4 07-10-2007, 02:39 PM

Do cows really have a "natural instinct to run"? All the cows I have ever seen don't look like they they even want to walk.

Colt McCoy · #5 07-10-2007, 02:47 PM

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Do cows really have a "natural instinct to run"? All the cows I have ever seen don't look like they they even want to walk.

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Only when they're scared or you come between her and her calf. But then women have no natural sports ability either so....

Scully · #6 07-10-2007, 05:10 PM

This kind of [censored] makes me embarrassed to be a girl. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Silent A · #7 07-10-2007, 06:30 PM

I can't help but feel that this will turn into a "cow walk". I just can't imagine them running.

And if they do, what difference does it make if you get run over/gored by a cow rather than a bull?

Colt McCoy · #8 07-11-2007, 09:42 AM

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I can't help but feel that this will turn into a "cow walk".

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Yeah, I can see it now. A bunch of fat chicks naming their favorite cows and putting hats and crap on them then walking along side them chewing their cuds.