i admit it humbly and with baseball failure. also legal reporting fatigue if i m being honest, rob. i don t blame you. thank you, rob. appreciate you. we will be right back. ht back. trains that use the power of dell ai and intel. to see hundreds of miles of tracks. [vroom] [train horn] [buzz] clearing the way, [whoosh] so you arrive exactly where you belong. slowing my cancer from growing and living longer are two things i want from my metastatic breast cancer treatment. and with kisqali, i can have both. kisqali is a pill that when taken with an aromatase inhibitor helps delay cancer from growing and has been proven to help people live significantly longer across three separate clinical trials. so, i have the confidence to live my life. kisqali can cause lung problems or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death.
For other people that were suffering and going through this. at first, when rob was diagnosed, i was the one that would break down in tears and rob would be, you know, pull yourself together, lindsey, you know, we can get through this. the wider rugby league family also united behind him to raise funds for research into a condition that has no cure and no treatment. who scored the most tries out of you two? j him, by a long way! by a long way! i think he knows that as well! is he laughing? yeah, he is! hopefully, through the campaign we have done, we have helped to make people aware of mnd and to give people and families affected by the disease some hope. we have to keep raising funds to fight this disease until we get a cure. rob burrow overcame so many challenges, on and off the field. he will always be remembered as a giant, whether wearing the blue and amber of his beloved leeds, or wearing the warmest of smiles in the face of a cruel disease.
Be a big photo of rob in this building and i m sure there will be some little kids who walk through with parents and grandparents and relatives who ask who is that? and i m also very sure the answer we will get is he was the legend behind this building. that s some legacy for him to leave. pretty heartbroken this morning but he was a special quy- you can watch a special documentary about rob burrow s story and his remarkable friendship with kevin sinfield. it s called there s only one rob burrow and it s on bbc one at 8:30pm tonight. it s also on the bbc iplayer. it s also on the bbc iplayer. commemorations will take place later this week to mark the 80th anniversary of d day when thousands of uk and allied forces landed on the beaches of northern france to liberate europe from nazi occupation.
The burrow family with how courageous they have all been. to come here today and see some of the fruits of rob s work, he was so proud of this. i have heard they are going to try and build it in record time now because that s what rob did, he broke records. and he wanted people to have a better outlook on life, he wanted people to have hope and to find a cure for this disease. and building the centre and the work he s been able to do over the last four and a half will ensure that those who come after him will be on a far betterjourney. i would urge anybody, if you don t remember rob burrow as a rugby player going to take a look because you ll be amazed the guy. he was superhuman, a big strong athlete. i m sure there will
But, in the future, one of the specialist nurses here, claire lang says, the centre will be radically different and drastically improved all under one roof. the minute you come into an environment like this, you feel like a patient and you get that anxiety and that feeling. whereas the new centre, hopefully, will be a more natural, homely type of feeling where, you know, they won t automatically feel like a patient and it s somewhere where they ll want to be. on the first day of last year s multi marathon challenge, kevin sinfield made a point of running past the site. it s the fundraising he and rob have done that s helped turn the dream of the mnd centre into a reality. i ve been really close to rob throughout this and i ve seen the journey and how brutal it is at times. and you could say this centre is just bricks and mortar, but it s not. it s, you know, it s built on spirit