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Marathon of Hope - Terry Fox
Apr 12, 1980
St. John's, Canada
Sep 1, 1980
Thunderbay, Canada
Terry Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his leg amputated above the knee when he was just 18. Nevertheless Terry decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. After 18 months of preparation, he started running close to a marathon a day. In 143 days Terry covered 3,339 miles, from St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada’s easternmost city on the shore of the Atlantic, through six provinces.No mean achievement for an able-bodied runner, an extraordinary feat for an amputee. Terry believed that he had won his fight against cancer, and he wanted to raise money...


