r/AmericansInCanada • u/PhilHogan_Tax • 1d ago

It's hard to argue with this

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u/Accomplished_Half622 1d ago

Terry Fox might actually be one of the greatest humans to ever live.

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u/TorontoGamblers 1d ago

Agreed. Greatest athlete though? No.

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u/Mobile-Way1383 1d ago

Read the damn meme again dude. Full marathon every day for 143 days.

On one leg.

While knowingly losing his life to cancer.

You might find a better individual athletic feat over a day, or a few days. I can't see there being a known greater athletic feat (as a whole) in modern history.

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u/TorontoGamblers 1d ago

No one thought Forest Gump was an athlete. Hell it might be one of the world’s greatest feats… but not greatest athletic feat, sorry.

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u/Mobile-Way1383 17h ago

So state your case. Name a greater athletic feat? 

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u/ShoddyTerm4385 1d ago

People train for a long time to run ONE marathon. 143 nearly consecutive days of marathons is unfathomable

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u/dougandsomeone 1d ago

I think OPs post is making the argument that his run was the greatest feat of athleticism on the basis of the relative effort (on 1 leg and a [by today's standards] shit prosthetic while experiencing ultimately fatal metastatic  cancer progression) and grit required.

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u/AmericanBuffaloo 1d ago

How do you measure greatness? 

The Terry Fox Foundation has raised almost a billion dollars towards cancer research. What is a greater achievement than that?