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Sewa

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Thu Aug 19, 2021, 11:45 PM Aug 2021

Polish Olympian auctions silver medal to help sick child

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from the Tokyo Games to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy, and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize.

Maria Andrejczyk, a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulder injury to compete at this year’s Olympics, said she decided to auction her medal to help the boy knowing how much she had to “fight against adversity and pain.”



https://www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Polish-Olympian-auctions-silver-medal-to-help-16397604.php

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Polish Olympian auctions silver medal to help sick child (Original Post) Sewa Aug 2021 OP
A true Olympian. sheshe2 Aug 2021 #1

sheshe2

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1. A true Olympian.
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 11:55 PM
Aug 2021

The money is for Milosz Malysa, an infant with a heart defect whose family has been raising funds for him to be operated on in the United States. Milosz’s parents posted last week that the boy was at risk of dying soon without the surgery.

Zabka, a popular convenience store chain in Poland, bid 200,000 zlotys ($51,000) but said it would let the athlete keep her medal.

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