This Sunday, December 14 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), for the 47th edition of the Christmas bullfight, the question will certainly arise, and even for most of the 14,000 expected runners. “No, there will be no release of bulls in the streets of the city,” smiles Claude Mercier, president of the Association for the Promotion of Running (APCAP) in Île-de-France. The term bullfight actually comes from Brazil. » And more precisely from Sao Paulo, a century ago, on the evening of December 31, 1925. A 15 km is organized as a party to celebrate the new year. This race is called the “Corrida de la New Year’s Eve” and quickly acquired worldwide fame under the name of the “Corrida de Sao Paulo”. Why bullfight? Quite simply because corrida means running in Portuguese, the official language in Brazil.
