British OAP is champion bullfighter; MATADOR.BRITAIN'S only bullfighter made a triumphant return to the ring at the age of 67 last night - four years after retiring on doctor's orders. Frank Evans killed two half-ton beasts and won a standing ovation. The grandfather-of-five had quit bullfighting bullfighting, national sport and spectacle of Spain. Called the corrida de toros in Spanish, the bullfight takes place in a large outdoor arena known as the plaza de toros. in 2005 to have a quadruple heart bypass and knee replacement surgery. But last night he put on his suit of lights to slay slay tr.v. slew , slain , slay·ing, slays 1. To kill violently. 2. past tense and past participle often slayed Slang two bulls in Benalmadena, near Malaga on the Costa del Sol. Frank, from Salford, Lancs, said: "I'm back as an active matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. and I will go to bed reasonably satisfied. "You get carried away and think you're fit - but four years is a long time to be away. The only way to get used to it is to do it again." |
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