Terry Fox run in bloody shorts. Bashny.Net

Terry Fox run in bloody shorts during the Marathon of Hope across Canada, July 1980, he ran for 143 days until he died. Terry Fox was born in Canada in 1958. In 1977, Terry began to feel pain in his right knee, he was diagnosed with bone cancer.
Doctors were forced to amputate his right leg above the knee. Three years later, a young athlete decides to run across the country from coast to coast. The purpose of run - to collect donations for cancer research. In organizing the "Marathon of Hope", he wanted to collect one dollar from every Canadian citizen. More than a year he trained every day, because it was well aware that even a healthy person to a distance not win without preparation.


Terry Fox began "Marathon of Hope" April 12, 1980, having dipped his leg into the Atlantic Ocean, and its intention to dip a second time in the Pacific in Vancouver. He ran an average of 42 kilometers a day, but the disease has progressed, and he ran, feeling constant pain, with a prosthesis instead of legs. Only the enormous strength of will and desire to help the millions of fellow sufferers moved it forward.

He could not finish the marathon. Cancer has spread to the lungs, and Terry Fox was forced to cut short a distance 1 September 1980. He stopped near the city of Thunder Bay (northern Ontario) after 143 days of continuous marathon, running 5,373 km through the province of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. Ten months later, before reaching his 23 th birthday, Terry died.

By February 1981 it was raised slightly more than $ 24 million, but most importantly, he managed to attract the attention of the general public. Now in Canada and more than 50 countries annually charity runs behalf of the Terry Fox Foundation in donations for cancer research. Terry Fox Run is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest single fund-raising campaign in the world. Now, after 25 years of development, "the Terry Fox Foundation," rose to $ 360 million, so that through the efforts of millions of people Terry Fox were not in vain.

Canadian authorities called icebreaker Terry Fox name. The ship was launched in 1983.