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Doddie Weir’s Wife to Join Lewis Moody’s 500-Mile Ride to Fund MND Research
The seven-day ride will raise money for motor neurone disease research and deliver the Gallagher Premiership final match ball, organizers said.
- Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody is undertaking a 500-mile charity cycling challenge this month, joined by Kathy and Hamish Weir to support the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation.
- Moody, the 2003 World Cup winner, revealed his own MND diagnosis last autumn; the foundation was established by Doddie Weir, who died in November 2022 at 52 after a six-year battle.
- The Lewis XV challenge begins Sunday, June 14, at Newcastle Red Bulls and concludes Saturday, June 20, at Allianz Stadium in London to deliver the match ball for the Gallagher Prem Rugby Final.
- Having Weir's family alongside him is "incredibly poignant and powerful," Moody said, as the group aims to show the MND community they are "still fighting, still driving awareness."
- Paul Thompson, director of fundraising at the Doddie Foundation, said the challenge demonstrates "courage and leadership," with every pound raised helping accelerate research toward effective treatments and a cure.
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