{"id":303077,"date":"2025-12-07T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303077\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:40:08","slug":"kevin-sinfield-7-in-7-together-challenge-final-leg-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303077\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Sinfield 7 in 7: Together challenge final leg in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal send offpublished at 09:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three men in the corridor of a sports stadium. Sinfield and Prince William stand pointing towards the camera, while Rob Burrow is sitting in his wheelchair.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/679ea011-88c8-4798-8822-425d023366d9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"876\" height=\"493\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield gave The Prince of Wales a tour around Headingley Stadium in 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prince of Wales offered &#8220;huge<br \/>\ncongratulations&#8221; to Sinfield on social media yesterday, describing the former rugby league star&#8217;s bid to run seven ultramarathons in seven days as &#8220;incredible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Writing on the Prince and Princess of Wales social media<br \/>\naccounts, Prince William urged Sinfield to \u201clook after those knees!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wrote:  \u201cYour<br \/>\ncommitment to Rob and everyone affected by MND is truly inspiring. Thank you<br \/>\nfor shining a light on the need for research and support, and for the hope and<br \/>\nexample you bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince William made both Sinfield and Burrow Commanders of the<br \/>\nOrder of the British Empire (CBEs) at the Rhinos&#8217; Headingley Stadium in January<br \/>\n2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prince<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c36468r0l2do\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> opened the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease<\/a> &#8211; the first purpose-built facility dedicated entirely to MND care,<br \/>\nresearch, education and holistic support &#8211; last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal send offpublished at 09:41 GMT 09:41 GMT Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-303077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}