He said: “Some people think people with disabilities can’t do anything like I just did and I wanted to break down that stigma of that.”<\/p>\n
Mr Burns, who is set to go into his fourth season with the Wigan Warriors wheelchair rugby team, said he was also inspired to fundraise for his club to help with the cost of buying some kit and new wheelchairs.<\/p>\n
He said: “It’s great to be part of a team and especially great to have some of my teammates cheering me on at the challenge.<\/p>\n
“The money will mean the world to us because we want to progress as a team, we actually want to get better as a group and obviously the main aim is – because I’m a Wigan lad, I actually want to win trophies with my club.”<\/p>\n
Mr Burns was also inspired by his admiration of Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield.<\/p>\n
“‘I’m a massive rugby league fan and I just love their relationship and what Kevin’s done for charity,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Even though I’m a Wigan Warriors fan, I’ve followed their careers and I wanted to contribute some of the money to the MND Association because of that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: “Some people think people with disabilities can’t do anything like I just did and I wanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-311184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311184","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=311184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}