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每个加拿大人都知道….泰瑞·福克斯

提交 九月 9, 2009 – 7:25 关于没有评论

Terry Fox statue, Ottawa当你搬到一个新的国家, 你需要了解那个国家的英雄. 在加拿大, 其中一个具有传奇色彩的图标是 泰瑞·福克斯.

出生在马尼托巴省和不列颠哥伦比亚省提出, Fox was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in 1977, 当时他还只是 18 岁. His leg was amputated six inches above his knee, and after undergoing intensive cancer treatment, he was fitted for an artificial leg.

Fox subsequently decided to raise money for cancer research. 在 1980, despite his artificial leg, 他开始了他 希望马拉松. Starting in April from St John’s, 纽芬兰, 他打算 run across Canada from coast to coast.

Fox ran the equivalent of a marathon a day — 26 英里 (或 42 公里) — from his Atlantic coast starting point. 到了九月, 后 143 天及以上 3,300 英里 (5,300 公里), 他顺利进入安大略省, just outside the city of Thunder Bay.

不幸的是, that’s where his marathon ended. The cancer had spread to his lung, 他只好回到公元前治疗.

由二月 1981, Fox had achieved his fund-raising goal募集 $1 from every Canadian to fight cancer. The Canadian population at that time was 24.1 万, 他希望马拉松募 $24.1 万.

Although Fox died of cancer in June 1981, his fund-raising legacy lives on, 通过 特里·福克斯基金会 而每年 泰瑞·福克斯润, 这发生在 以上 900 locations 横跨加拿大. This year’s Terry Fox Run will be held this Saturday, 九月 13, 2009.

Even kids can get in on the fund-raising act through the 特里·福克斯全国学校运行日, 其中发生星期五, 九月 25, 2009 在全国的学校.

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