The 2006 edition of the yearly charity race, Beijing Terry Fox
Run, will take place on September 23rd to raise money for the
cancer research.
This year's Terry Fox Run in Beijing will start from the
Worker's Stadium at ten o'clock in the morning and will finish at
the Cancer Hospital with a distance of approximately eight
kilometers.
Participants can run, walk, ride their bikes, use their wheel
chairs or their roller blades.
The Runs will also be held in Shanghai and GuangZhou later this
fall.
Canadian Terry Fox initiated the race in 1977 when the
18-year-old at that time, still a college student, was diagnosed
with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated.
In 1980, Terry started his charity race, also named Marathon of
Hope, across Canada on an artificial leg to raise money for cancer
research.
After Terry died in 1981, people held the race to commemorate
Terry's feat and raise money for cancer research.
In 1998, the first time of Marathon of Hope in China was held in
Shanghai. Beijing began to hold the yearly run next year with tens
of thousands of participants joined this activity in Beijing.
Last year, funds raised amounted to over 1.2 million RMB (about
US$150.000).
(Xinhua News Agency August 11, 2006)