What Terry Fox accomplished was absolutely mind.... blowing. I could barely watch it without the tears welling up. Still just thinking about it... lonely stretch of highway in the middle of nowhere, one leg... anyone who's ever done any serious distance running... well, my God. Knowing that his chances of living through it let alone long very slim indeed well.... what can you say?
It was beyond heroic & really opened peoples eyes to the insidious creep of Cancer that until then was itself on the march rather quietly. And in the years that have followed continues to claim far far too many lives. The older we get, the more people we know who's lives have either been touched by or ended by the disease. Its just everywhere. Some of us its touched personally or likely will.... So yes, to me Terry's life, what he accomplished, transcendent of Sport, well beyond. Were talking Sainthood. Totally selfless. What he did to open peoples eyes to the abilities of those with handicaps & or Cancer.... well..... words fail. Beyond an Icon.