Steve Fonyo, who lost leg to cancer and ran across Canada to raise funds, dead at 56
Steve Fonyo, who lost his leg to cancer as a child and ran a marathon across Canada to raise millions for cancer research, has died. He was 56.
Fonyo’s niece Melody Kruppa said he had what appeared to be a seizure in a hotel room in Burnaby on Friday and paramedics could not revive him.
The cause of death was not clear and the family will have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday for the coroner to assess the body due to the long weekend, Kruppa said.
“We’re all just waiting. We’re just doing the best that we can. It’s just very hard to wait for the coroner to look at him and find out what the cause was and whether we’re going to be able to view his body. We just don’t know anything right now.”
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/steve-fonyo-dies-at-56-obit
I remember his run and the aftermath. He could never live up to the image created by Terry Fox. The media dogged him relentlessly reporting on his every trespass. He was castigated by the press for calling Wayne Gretzky a “wimp”.
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