Going back to the 80’s and the days of videos, I remember walking out of the new video shop with a film called ‘The Terry Fox Story’ a HBO TV movie about a one legged Canadian guy running across Canada to raise money for Cancer research calling it ‘the marathon of hope’.
As somebody who back in those days ran 6 days a week come rain, hail or sunshine I was very much enthralled in his story and remember at the end when it did not have the usual happy ending having to step back and take in what he achieved, unfortunately Terry did not quite manage to get to the other end of Canada and there was no miracle cure he sadly died at the very young age of 22. Terry Fox hoped to raise C$1for each of Canada's 24 million people on his run, a goal he met despite being forced to end his run after 143 days and 5,300 kilometers when his cancer spread to his lungs.
Terry died of cancer nine months after abandoning his marathon. His name has been lent to the annual Terry Fox Run which was first held in 1981 and is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research having raised over $500-million. In 2004, he was named the second greatest Canadian in history by Canadians.
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