San Fermin Fair: Colombo, the spectacular grand entrance | Culture

The Pamplona bullring closed the San Fermín fair in the most crude way possible, converted into a huge raffle that gave away undeserved trophies and allowed the Venezuelan Jesús E. Colombo to walk away with three ears and leave on shoulders as one of the great winners of the cycle without any bullfighting reason to justify it.

This bullfighter has the measure of the sunny stands, which he constantly encourages, he stands out for his physical condition, and one cannot deny his dedication and disposition throughout the entire fight, but he is incapable of saying anything with the cape, the banderillas or the muleta. Certainly, he executed the killing move with rectitude and immeasurable courage, but the two stabs fell low, and as he was fortunate that the sixth bull collapsed, he was awarded the double trophy.

His courage is enviable, even though all his work is fast-paced, dramatic, disorganized, uncontrolled and without substance. He caped with Navarras and Zapopinas without any control, stuck up to four pairs of banderillas into that sixth bull in a very irregular way, and tried without success to take advantage of its strong charge in very detached and restless passes.

He was neat and without losing his temper in front of the very dull and short-lived third bull, difficult, like the whole bullfight, and he walked away with another ear that, with all certainty, not even the president will know at this point why she awarded it; perhaps, because he is well liked by the dancing and singing people of the sun, who compensate him with trophies for the attention that the bullfighter professes to them.

The ear that Escribano gave away after the death of the fifth was not justified either. The bullfighter stood out, once again, for his courage and skill, and he was disappointed when his first miura (an ancient bull painting of the same name, Tahonerowhich he pardoned in Utrera, Seville, on June 22, 2019) was returned after his right horn broke against a barrier. In its place came a substitute bull from Cebada Gago, the most docile and dangerous bull of the entire fair, with which he demonstrated his experience.

To such Tahonero He received it on his knees in the middle with a long pass, just like the fifth, with the difference that he didn’t see it when he came out and Escribano had to change the terrain and draw the long pass in the third after the animal had taken a walk around the ring. He called this bull with muleta in hand from the center of the ring with two passes changed behind, but the performance lacked brilliance because it was a dull and exhausted bull. He placed banderillas on both of them with more will than success (in his first he shared the third with Colombo, as happened in the next one with the Venezuelan), and they gave him a trophy to compensate him, perhaps, for the bad times he had to endure.

Antonio Ferrera had few options; his first bull was of imposing size, and tried to greet the subordinate Miguel Murillo from above the shelter and behaved in a noble and very uncasted manner. The fourth bull also offered no opportunity to shine and Ferrera had to settle for graceful passes from the old bullfighting style, drawing the bulls away from the horse with a dark green cape of very dubious taste.