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发表于 2004-12-2 21:34
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骨董自行车长征4350公里
一身复古装扮的英国自行车骑士史考特，为了替「白血病童」慈善组织募款，二日骑著前大後小骨董自行车抵达雪梨，完成跨越澳洲壮举。
这次的自行车之旅於十月十三日从伯斯出发，共历时五十天，全长四千三百五十公里。
Leukaemia patient completes gruelling penny farthing ride across Australia
Thu Dec 2,11:16 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - A British leukaemia patient rolled into Sydney after a gruelling fundraising ride on a vintage penny
farthing bicycle across the Australian outback.
Lloyd Scott, 43, set out from Perth in Western Australia on October 13 on what many saw as a crazy mission to raise one
million pounds (1.9 million dollars) for the British charity, Children with Leukaemia.
To do it, he had to cross the hot Nullarbor Plain on his awkward, uncomfortable bike for 12 hours a day along the longest,
straightest road in the world.
The penny farthing, an ungainly-looking bicycle with a front wheel much larger than the back one, was popular during the
nineteenth century.
As he reached Sydney's Bondi Beach seven weeks and one day after he began, Scott admitted he was only one third of the way
toward his financial target, but still hopeful of reaching it.
"It's worth the pain because there's a very personal message from me as well, the fact that I actually had leukaemia."
The former firefighter was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia in 1987.
Following a successful transplant which sent the disease into remission, he dedicated himself to raising money for Children
with Leukaemia through a series of endurance events.
In a previous charity effort he completed the London Marathon in a deep-sea diving suit.
Scott said many people might find his latest adventure a "bit barmy (insane)" but it was worth it.
"I mean, someone today will probably be diagnosed as having leukaemia and they can say 'Oh, that guy who rode the bike
across Australia, he had leukaemia.'
"It might instil a little bit of hope or inspiration or encouragement and that's something we can rarely give somebody
else."
He said that in many ways the ride, and suffering the disease, were similar.
"Both of them are pretty slow, painful journeys and I was in hospital for the bone marrow transplant for roughly the same
amount of time I was on this ride.
"At times I did think: Am I going to make it? Same as in the hospital but fortunately, like the illness, I am going to come
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