Catalonia set to rejoin Humanity

One of the most barbaric "sports" around, if you ignore competitive according playing*...

Bullfighting fans in Catalonia are set to see the last fights before a ban on the age-old tradition comes into effect in Spain's north-eastern region.

About 20,000 spectators are expected to fill Barcelona's Monumental arena, where top matadors will be performing.

Lawmakers voted for the ban last year - the first in mainland Spain - after 180,000 people signed a petition.

They say the bullfighting is barbaric, but opponents say they will challenge the ban in Spain's top court.

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* I do realize Canada is in a bit of a glass house here, what with the seal hunt....

Spain's most celebrated bullfighter learns payback's a bitch

Sorry, but I don't feel any sympathy for practitioners of this barbaric "sport".

The story does contain this bizarrely worded paragraph..

The half-tonne bull caught the famously risk-taking torero in his upper thigh and dug his horn deep by raising his head before flicking the pink-stockinged, sequinned matador up into the air.

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