The story in the movie ‘To walk again’ consists of 4 different elements. First item: the personal history of Marc Herremans. A film crew will follow him this year and they’ll record his weak and strong moments during his activities. This crew is also here at the island, for the Ironman Lanzarote! It’s the first time Marc is participating in this Ironman again, after his accident. He has already finished the Ironman Hawaii 3 times as a wheelchair athlete, and now it’s time to finish the toughest Ironman in the world! “I am the only athlete in a wheelchair here. I know that some years ago, somebody else did it as well on this island and he finished just approximately 45 seconds before closing time of the race… My goal is to finish in about 14 hours, but you never know on Lanzarote. It’s hard and everything can be different than you expect before. I’ll see what I can do!” Marc will do the race together with the Belgian Dirk van Gossum, winner of the Ironman Lanzarote 2000. He will accompany him during the whole distance.
Secondly, there will be testimonials of for example elite sportsmen and actors, and other people with the same will-power and goal as Marc. Because will-power, that’s something Marc really has!
The third level contains fragments of victims in revalidation with the same goal and an image of the meeting centre for users of wheelchairs in Tongerlo, Belgium, and the ‘Foundation Marc Herremans, To Walk Again’. He namely set up this non-profit organisation, which is used to collect money for the spinal cord research and to help people in a wheelchair to work out and do sports.
Finally, we’ll see people with all kinds of handicaps, adversities, with the same will-power of just in search of this will-power and capacity to continue.
It’s not that this is the order of the movie: the main story is Marc’s and the other three elements interweave themselves meanwhile.
 
Marc Herremans with Dirk Van Gossum - Winner Ironman Lanzarote 2000
The premiere of the movie will be in the beginning of 2007, and if you want to see it in the cinema, you’ll have the chance in February and March. If you missed this, you have to wait till September when the film will be broadcasted at the Belgian television and the DVD will also be available in the same month.
The profits of the movie will go completely to the foundation ‘To Walk Again’, so if you’re going to see the movie next year, you’ll do something for a good organisation! As mentioned before, the goal is to collect money to support and to stimulate the medical investigation to heal the injuries of the spinal column. Moreover, the funds are used to create a centre, in collaboration with Sporta, where (young) wheelchair users are helped and assisted to participate in every kind of sports. The integration of these wheelchair users into the society has an important place here.
We wish Marc all the luck for this Ironman Lanzarote and his other activities and we hope that his film crew can make a nice report during this week at the island!
If you want more information about these projects, please check:
>> www.towalkagain.org
>> www.sporta.be/towalkagain
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Club La Santa, 18 May 2006 
