Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports and Youth Welfare Udayanidhi Stalin flags off the Jallikattu event.

The bull taming sport, ‘Jallikattu‘ at Alanganallur began on Tuesday with traditional sporting fervour and streams of energetic young men raced against time to dominate the robust bulls and emerge victorious. Tamil Nadu Minister for Sports and Youth Welfare Udayanidhi Stalin flags off the Jallikattu event. As the bulls jumped and leapt forward from the ‘Vadivasal,’ the entrance to the sporting arena, filled with sand and hay, men on the sideways tried to embrace the bulls by clinging on to the hump.