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| April 16, 2010 | Martina Navratilova to climb Kilimanjaro despite battling cancer | | London: Retired tennis player Martina Navratilova is refusing to let her recent breast cancer diagnosis stop her from reaching her goals and will go ahead with her plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Doctors caught the condition in its early stages after the sports legend underwent a routine mammogram in February this year. Navratilova was distraught when she first learned of her condition, but
she has since vowed to live life to the full - and is starting by training for
the gruelling climb up the African peak in December (10). The nine-time Wimbledon
champion is carrying out the challenge to raise funds for the Laureus World Sports
Academy - which uses sport to aid positive social change. "Cancer does make you
take a pause and re-evaluate, make sure that you're doing everything you want
to do in life, and I am... I'm climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for Laureus," the Daily
Express quoted her as saying on TV show Loose Women. "I'm a member of the Laureus
Academy and we have a Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. "We try and raise money
for that and so I'm climbing Mount Kilimanjaro . I spend a lot of time in Kenya
and Tanzania , so I'm looking forward to that... I'm hoping to make it to the
top," she added. Navratilova has undergone a lumpectomy and will begin a six-week
course of radiation therapy in May (10). | |
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