On May 4, there is the Wings for Life World Run. It is the largest charity event of running to the world and since 2014 it raises funds for scientific research to find a cure for spinal cord injuries. This year he celebrates the story of Michel Roccati, In a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident in 2017 and which now thanks to the electrodes implanted in the spine has returned to walk again. Roncati is Ambassador of the Wings for Life World Run: “I live with a subcutaneous battery in the belly, which feeds a series of electrodes implanted at the level of the spine- explained Michel who was followed by the Swiss Neurorestore team, directed by the neuroscientist of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de lausanne (epfl) Grégoire- Electrodes act like a bridge, which jumps the medullary lesion and sends electric stimuli to the muscles that contract, making their legs move “.
A new impulse to scientific research. The Wings for Life World Run is running exactly a month after the national day of people with injury to the spinal cord that was celebrated on April 4th. The marrow injuries according to the estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO) affect from 250 thousand to 500 thousand people every year in the world. To date, more than 15 million people coexist with the consequences of a spinal lesion, whose most frequent causes are road accidents and drops from falls. It is for them that 100% of the proceeds from the registration fees and donations, in fact, will be destined for this cause. In 20 years of activity, the Wings for Life Foundation has financed 324 research projects and from 2014 to today, thanks to the Wings for Life World Run, 51.93 million euros have been collected.
A unique race of its kind. The Wings for Life is an event with a single format, which sees the runners of all the places in the world starts simultaneously (in Italy the start will be at 13:00) and then be chased by a mobile goal called Catcher carwhich starts half an hour after the start and eliminates the participants as it reaches them. There is therefore no predetermined distance to go and thanks to the Wings for Life World Run app everyone is part of a single great global movement, which runs, walks and enjoys a good cause.
The Olympian Astist Duplantis and Mister Klopp is also competing. In Italy other races are scheduled in Aosta, Bibione, Rome, Verona, Monguelph and Palermo Mondello Masi runs throughout Europe and in reality in every corner of the world thanks to the app that allows you to participate in the Wings for Life World Run wherever you are. In this twelfth edition of the Wings for Life World Run, the Swedish-American Olympic medal in the jump with the auction, Armand Duplantis, and the famous football coach Jürgen Klopp who, like many other Ambassador, has also created his team, Kloppo & Friends, who can be joined by the aforementioned app.
This year the official rumors of the race in Italy They will be the well -known TV presenter Veronica Ruggeri, who will be the motivator of the day, and the content Creator Ale of the right (over 1 million followers between YouTube, Tik Tok, Twitch and Instagram), which will lend the voice to the catcher car. Veronica Ruggeri and Ale of the Giusto will be present at the Milan City Life app, where the Red Bull athlete Tony Arbolino, a young talent of MotoGP, will also run, while the Wakeboarder Claudia Pagnini, also athlete Red Bull, will be at the starting tapes of the Run Run app, together with Lorenzo Lotti with his team
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