Fox is one of Canada's most celebrated disabled atheltes who in 1980 earned worldwide fame with the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg after having his right knee amputated after he was diaganosed with cancer following a car crash.

The cancer returned during Fox's run and he was unable to complete it, dying it in June 1981.

At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver next month, a Terry Fox Award is due to be awarded to an athlete who embodies Fox's characteristics of determination and humility in the face of adversity.

The event, under the patronage of His Highness. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qassimi, the Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, will be held on March 5 and will feature a 5 kilometre race.

Organisers in Ras Al Khaimah, which is one of the emirates of the UAE, in the southwest of the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, are promising that all the funds raised from the event will be donated to research institutions that are accredited by the International Union Against Cancer in Geneva.

The funds raised from the first RAK Terry Fox Run will be donated to the UAE University Hospital in Al Ain where a number of ongoing cancer research projects are being conducted.

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