{"id":995241,"date":"2022-02-17T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/watch-cyclists-in-stupidly-hard-california-race-attacked-by-rampaging-bull\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:55:24","slug":"watch-cyclists-in-stupidly-hard-california-race-attacked-by-rampaging-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/17\/watch-cyclists-in-stupidly-hard-california-race-attacked-by-rampaging-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Cyclists in &#8216;stupidly hard&#8217; California race attacked by rampaging bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cyclists-in-stupidly-hard-California-race-attacked-by-rampaging-bull.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SjzomXax-K4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bull attacks bicyclist during race\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjzomXax-K4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 17 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A California bike race billed as &#8220;stupidly hard&#8221; became even more difficult than organizers predicted when three riders were attacked by a rampaging bull.<\/p>\n<p>The Bianchi Rock Cobbler, an 80-mile off-road bike race through Bakersfield that&#8217;s billed as a &#8220;stupidly hard ride&#8221; on its website, was interrupted when a bull ran into the path of oncoming cyclists and attacked three of the riders.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am extremely sore,&#8221; Tony Inderbitzin, a cyclist who was thrown into the air by the bull, told KMPH-TV. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been this sore. Initially, right after the attack, my neck was killing me. That was the focal point of the soreness, now it&#8217;s the lower back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inderbitzin did not finish the race, but two other cyclists attacked by the bull were later able to cross the finish line, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Ames, Rock Cobbler&#8217;s &#8220;chief excitement officer,&#8221; said all three cyclists evaded serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody had a good laugh and thank god it wasn&#8217;t worse,&#8221; he said in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>Ames said organizers are looking into measures for next year&#8217;s race to prevent future encounters with angry bovines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 17 (UPI) &#8212; A California bike race billed as &#8220;stupidly hard&#8221; became even more difficult than organizers predicted when three riders were attacked by a rampaging bull. The Bianchi Rock Cobbler, an 80-mile off-road bike race through Bakersfield that&#8217;s billed as a &#8220;stupidly hard ride&#8221; on its website, was interrupted when a bull ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}