Canadian Paralympian Tyler McGregor skates 42 kilometres in Saskatchewan on Canada tour | 24CA News
Saskatchewan isn’t any stranger to hitting the ice for a morning skate, however typically, folks don’t go 42 kilometres on the morning stroll.
For Canadian Paralympian Tyler McGregor nevertheless, that was precisely what he got down to do at Echo Lake Thursday.
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McGregor is at the moment on a cross-Canada Sledge Skate of Hope, impressed by Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, the place he’s elevating cash for the Terry Fox Foundation.
The objective is to skate his sled 42 kilometres in each Canadian province and lift $100,000 in complete by the tour.
The journey started in Halifax on Jan. 6, however for McGregor, the connection to Fox has been felt for a lot longer.
As McGregor progressed by hockey rising up, he entered the OHL draft and broke his leg within the first recreation of the season. After a sequence of surgical procedures and setbacks, he was recognized with spindle cell sarcoma – a bone most cancers similar to what affected Fox.
“Terry Fox became an inspiration in my life very early on,” McGregor mentioned.
Fox was given a couple of 20 per cent probability of survival when he was recognized with most cancers. For McGregor, after medical developments within the discipline, he was given an 80 per cent probability of survival.
“Thanks to the marathon of hope, the Terry Fox Foundation and the awareness and money that he spearheaded in 1980 and the subsequent research that has been done since then, people like myself have been able to regain their health and continue to live,” McGregor mentioned.
Echo Lake marked the sixth cease on the tour, and the ice was in good situation.
“Echo Valley has been incredible,” he mentioned. “The ice is so fast and so hard. This is probably my favourite ice I’ve been on so far.”
The skate was held at an 800-metre monitor within the park.
Those at Sask Parks mentioned it was nice to have McGregor locally and have the possibility to satisfy folks from Saskatchewan going by one thing related.
“We are honoured Tyler chose us and he actually sought out our park specifically,” mentioned Shelly Maclean, the supervisor of Echo Valley Provincial Park. “We are so happy to help Tyler be successful, and he is a very inspiring young man.”
To donate to the fund, you may go to sledgeskateofhope.com
McGregor makes his subsequent cease in Winnipeg this weekend.
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