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According to Cheonan City on the 21st, Cheonan Mayor Park Sang-don recently met with officials from Cheonan City Sports Association and agreed to help the player after receiving news that the player is suffering from severe pain.
Mayor Park, as well as city officials, Cheonan City Hall Civil Service Workers’ Union, and Cheonan City Sports Association employees also decided to participate. They plan to launch a Cheonan citizen fundraising campaign for this player sooner or later. In addition, the’Lee Bong-ju Marathon’ is also being planned.
Mayor Park said, “This player is a visitor from Cheonan, and Cheonan is the center of the city, so he must help him.” “We will consider how to open the marathon as early as this year.”
“It is a pity that this athlete, a Korean marathon hero and a representative athlete from Cheonan, is suffering from incurable diseases,” said Han Nam-kyo, chairman of the Cheonan City Sports Council.
Born in Cheonan, Lee won a silver medal in the 26th Atlanta Olympic marathon in 1996 and a gold medal in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998, and retired after winning the Daejeon National Sports Marathon in 2009.
Recently, the current situation that this player suffered from unexplained muscle dystonia from a year ago was regrettable. The symptom that this player is experiencing is’muscular dystonia’, which is classified as an incurable disease. It is known as an incurable disease in which muscle abnormalities accompanied by pain such as twisting muscles or twisting of the neck rotate regardless of one’s will.
This player appeared on TV Chosun’s’Star Documentary My Way’, which aired on the 15th, and revealed the current status of the fight against the disease.
This player, who appeared on the broadcast at the time with a bent back and waist, confessed, “I had to pay attention to, but I think I was too proud of my body.”
He said, “I couldn’t stretch my back all of a sudden in January of last year,” he said. After visiting the hospital for a year, I was diagnosed with a disease called muscular dystonia.”
“If I walk a little, I can breathe,” said Lee. So I was afraid to go outside.”
He said, “When I compare my life with a marathon, it seems that it has passed half.
He expressed his determination, saying, “I will endure with the spirit,” saying, “I will set the remaining period as a period to finish really well so that I can pass that hurdle wisely.
Currently, this player is known to be devoted to constant treatment and rehabilitation.