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- Pamplona opened the 2026 San Fermin festival with fireworks, marking the novel’s 100th anniversary.
- Bill Hillmann, a Chicago professor, has been gored three times, recently in 2017.
- In 2022, Americans comprised 16% of bull runners while operator Bruce Anderson is bringing 1,400 guests, over two-thirds from the United States, to the festival.
- Pamplona’s 200,000 residents host over a million visitors, 15% foreign tourists, while animal-rights activists protest the bullfights as outdated.
