The race will be preceded by a charity sale of T-shirts with campaign visuals, a press conference announced this week. T-shirts will be sold on September 16, from 11am to 1pm, at the corner of Gajeva Street and Bogoviceva Street in downtown Zagreb.
Canadian Ambassador Daniel Maksymiuk said that the Terry Fox Run was organised to raise awareness of the importance of investing in cancer drug research. He said that with the research funded by the Terry Fox Run people live longer and better and called on citizens to join the race and show, as Terry Fox had, that everything is possible.
This non-competitive event takes place every year in honour of Canadian athlete Terry Fox, who lost a leg to cancer. In order to raise money for treatment, in 1980 he embarked on a run across Canada, which he called the Marathon of Hope. He ran 143 days, covering 42 km a day, but failed to finish the run because the disease came back, claiming his life at 22. In his memory, the Fox family launched a drive to raise money for the fight against cancer, which is held every year in Canada and over 60 countries across the world, including Croatia.