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This is the \u2018magical\u2019 moment subway station passengers broke out into a spontaneous round of applause for a London Marathon runner.<\/p>\n
Liam Williams ran the recent race in honor of his niece Freya, who passed away last year from a brain tumor.<\/p>\n
After an emotional day, the 38-year-old took the wrong train back to his hotel, and found himself at Monument station.<\/p>\n
But, when the train pulled away, he realized that there was a huge crowd on the platform across from him\u2014and they all started clapping.<\/p>\n
A video taken by his wife shows the strangers cheering and erupting with admiration while Liam becomes overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite a surreal moment really,\u201d said the man from Leeds, England. \u201cOne person started cheering and clapping and before you know it the whole platform was cheering. It was this amazing, magical moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people were shouting \u2018speech\u2019. It was incredible. That moment just felt epic after all the emotions of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy partner was in stitches laughing at me because this isn\u2019t really my comfort zone. I don\u2019t enjoy being the centre of attention at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liam decided to run his first marathon to raise money for \u2018Young Lives vs Cancer\u2019, which helped his family throughout Freya\u2019s cancer battle.<\/p>\n
In September, Liam began running to train for the event and decided he wanted to give back to the charity, who provided a place for the family to stay, along with toys, counseling, and emotional support.<\/p>\n
Despite getting a stitch around mile 15, he still managed to complete the race in three hours and 45 minutes, only slightly longer than he had aimed for.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat really stuck out to me across the whole day was that everyone is cheering you on. Everyone backs you and it is nice because you put a lot of training in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liam ended up raising over \u00a310,000, since his video went viral, with thousands rolling in beyond his goal of 2,500.<\/p>\n
HEARTWARMING SURPRISES: \u201cI am so proud of what I have achieved\u2014and I hit my fundraising target which was immense.<\/p>\n \u201cThe charity really supported my family through that period so it was really nice to be able to give something back.\u201d<\/p>\n RUN THIS OVER TO ANYONE Who Needs Their Heart Tugged On Social Media\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWNS This is the \u2018magical\u2019 moment subway station passengers broke out into a spontaneous round of applause for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[12332,27,4477,344,12331,12330],"class_list":{"0":"post-27987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-heartwarming","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-running","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-strangers","13":"tag-surprise"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116514367912574721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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