In Course Landaise sporting thrills include athletic young men, sauteurs, leaping or somersaulting over a charging cow

In Course Landaise sporting thrills include athletic young men, sauteurs, leaping or somersaulting over a charging cow

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Course Landaise, where young men face frisky cows, is a form of bullfighting popular in southwest France. There are two forms: one, where men in boleros must twist away from the horns and two, where sauteurs, or somersaulters, leap over the oncoming animal

Location: Nogaro, Gers, Gascony, France