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Canada's Sports Hall Of Fame Unveils Terry Fox Exhibit On Eve Of Namesake Run

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 13 Sep, 2016 11:41 AM
    CALGARY — A Terry Fox exhibit opens at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame with the 36th running of his race just days away.
     
    A signed Wayne Gretzky jersey given to Fox just before he started his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980, is among the reminders of a young man who ran the equivalent of a marathon every day on a prosthetic leg before cancer took him.
     
    Fox's brother Darrell says the exhibit at the Hall of Fame in Calgary would have meant a lot to Terry because he saw his Marathon of Hope as an athletic endeavour as much as it was to raise money and awareness about cancer.
     
    Fox was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame shortly after his death in 1981.
     
    About $700 million has been raised for cancer research and treatment in his name.
     
    The Hall has devoted an entire room to Fox for the exhibit which is open to the public until December.

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