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Subido el 19 de junio de 2023 por Juan Angel L.

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Presentation of a person I admire, who you may not have heard about

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This is the story of a person I admire. It's someone that not many people have heard of in Spain, but he is considered a true hero in his home country. Can you guess his nationality? Yes, Canada. 00:00:01
Do you know any famous people from Canada? 00:00:16
You probably do, although you may not know that they are indeed from Canada. 00:00:20
This is Celine Dion, a singer. 00:00:26
She is from Quebec, the French-speaking province of Canada. 00:00:29
Justin Bieber, of course, is also from Canada. 00:00:34
Jim Carrey, the world famous actor, is from Canada too. 00:00:39
Even so is Ryan Gosling, the star of the film La La Land along with Emma Stone. 00:00:45
But none of them are the person I admire. 00:00:51
The person I admire is this. 00:00:54
His name is Terry Fox. 00:00:58
So who was Terry Fox? 00:01:02
From the picture you can guess that he was young and he was an athlete, a runner. 00:01:05
Do you like running? 00:01:11
the longest distance that you can run without stopping? 1 kilometer? 5 00:01:13
kilometers? 20 kilometers? I'd like to ask you something. Is it humanly possible to 00:01:18
run 42 kilometers non-stop? Yes, that is the length of the marathon and Terry Fox 00:01:26
was indeed a marathon runner but a very special one. Is it humanly possible to 00:01:34
run a marathon every day for five months? Is it humanly possible to run a marathon 00:01:41
every day for five months on a prosthetic leg? This is precisely what 00:01:49
Terry Fox did. But why? His was a story of courage and this is how it all started. 00:01:56
In 1976, when he was only 18, he was diagnosed with cancer and the doctors had to amputate 00:02:06
his right leg. 00:02:17
This was a real shock for Terry but the doctors told him that he was lucky because thanks 00:02:19
to recent research, Terry had more chances to survive cancer. 00:02:24
He had to spend some months doing rehabilitation at the hospital where he met a lot of other 00:02:30
children and teenagers with cancer. Some of them were fighting the disease, but some others 00:02:36
had lost all hope. Terry decided that he had to do something. More research was necessary 00:02:42
to give those children hope, and while he was in hospital, he read a newspaper article 00:02:49
about the first person with an amputated leg to finish the New York City Marathon. He realized 00:02:56
then that everything was possible if you tried hard enough and he set up his plan to raise 00:03:03
money for cancer research by running what he called the marathon of hope. 00:03:09
So he started training and after one year he entered his first long distance competition. 00:03:16
Although he finished in last place he knew he was ready to tell his family about his 00:03:23
plan. 00:03:28
He told his parents that he wanted to raise $1 from every Canadian for cancer research. 00:03:29
In 1980, the population of Canada was 24 million, so that was his goal. 00:03:37
His mom asked him, so where do you plan to run? 00:03:43
And Terry answered, across Canada. 00:03:47
What do you mean across Canada? 00:03:51
You probably know that Canada is the second largest country in the world, it's huge. 00:03:53
So his mom asked him, you mean from Toronto to Vancouver? 00:04:00
No, Terry replied, from St. John's, the easternmost point in Canada, all the way to the Pacific 00:04:06
Ocean all across Canada a distance of around 8,500 kilometers to give you an 00:04:14
idea that's the distance from Madrid to Pakistan so his mom asked him but how do 00:04:24
you plan to do this on your own and Terry replied oh no I won't be alone my 00:04:33
younger brother and my best friend are coming with me they're going to be 00:04:39
driving a van where we will all sleep at night. When Terry asked different 00:04:43
companies for donations for his project, Ford donated the van and Adidas donated 00:04:49
the pairs of shoes. So in April 1980 Terry started his marathon of hope. This 00:04:55
was his daily routine. He used to wake up at 4 and start running. He completed a 00:05:03
half marathon and then he took a break. Later in the afternoon, he ran the rest of the distance. 00:05:09
At first, not many people knew about Terry's marathon of hope and he was very frustrated 00:05:18
that they were getting very little money. When they were in Quebec, they even had problems 00:05:23
to communicate with the locals because they couldn't speak French. However, little by 00:05:28
little he became more and more popular. The owner of the Four Seasons Hotel chain was 00:05:34
touched by Terry's initiative because she had lost her son to cancer the year before. 00:05:40
She promised to donate money for every kilometer he ran and persuaded a thousand other companies 00:05:48
to do the same. Soon, Terry became a celebrity, giving speeches in public places. Remember 00:05:54
that it was 1980 and there was no Facebook, no Instagram, no YouTube, no social media 00:06:02
whatsoever. It was a lot more difficult to get publicity back then. 00:06:10
Unfortunately on the 1st of September, after 143 days and 5400 km, Terry felt ill. He tried 00:06:17
to run but he found it difficult to breathe. He realised he couldn't go on anymore and 00:06:28
asked his friend to take him to hospital. It turned out that his cancer was back, this 00:06:34
time in his lungs. Although he received treatment to stop the cancer, he finally passed away 00:06:41
almost a year later. His funeral was broadcast on national television. 00:06:47
Terry Fox was a true hero for the Canadians who have named 15 streets, 14 schools and 00:06:55
even a mound after him. 00:07:02
People organised charity marathons of hope to raise money for cancer research not only 00:07:05
in Canada but also around the world in places like Cuba, Italy or Croatia. 00:07:10
Now what was the most amazing thing about Terry's story? 00:07:17
Was it that he ran so many kilometers? 00:07:21
Or that he raised so much money? 00:07:26
Well, the most amazing thing was probably that he even tried to do it. 00:07:28
Idioma/s:
en
Autor/es:
Juan Ángel López Santamaría
Subido por:
Juan Angel L.
Licencia:
Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual
Visualizaciones:
10
Fecha:
19 de junio de 2023 - 1:33
Visibilidad:
Clave
Centro:
EOI E.O.I. DE FUENLABRADA
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Fuentes de las imágenes utilizadas:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3-YbUiWwAAgyWN?format=jpg&name=small - Terry Fox Foundation
https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/lfpjuly1719801616a.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=1200 - globalnews.ca
https://d1ijoxngr27nfi.cloudfront.net/images/default-source/default-album/terry-fox-945x532.tmb-0945x532.jpg?sfvrsn=57372969_1 - Terry Fox Foundation
http://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/terryfox/jcr:content/main_content/image.img.2000.high.jpg/1663885137292.jpg - sfu.ca
https://terryfoxschoolrun.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Terry-Fox-Image-3_Google.png - Terry Fox school run
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5065102.1589919211!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/van-of-hope.jpg - Darrell Fox
https://terryfox.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/July-10-Terry-Betty-and-Rolly-at-breakfast-in-Whitby-ON-Credit-Keith-Beaty-Toronto-Star.jpg - Terry Fox Foundation
https://terryfox.org/wp-content/themes/terry-fox/images/terry-fox-timeline.jpg - Terry Fox Foundation
https://havanatimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/elio-0001.jpg - Havana Times
https://static.eldiario.es/clip/ff3331fd-d475-4f59-800a-2bf2c8bf476c_16-9-discover-aspect-ratio_default_0.webp - eldiario.es
https://images.hola.com/imagenes/actualidad/20220402207391/jim-carrey-anuncia-su-retirada-del-cine/1-70-930/jim-carrey-gtres-t.jpg - hola.com

Vídeo Terry Fox final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MoGWYw4B34 - Terry Fox Foundation
Duración:
08′ 08″
Relación de aspecto:
1.78:1
Resolución:
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