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Offline epiphany

Selling an Olympic Medal to Help a Sick Child
« on: June 01, 2022, 04:40:16 PM »
Poland | When Maria Andrejczyk captured the silver in javelin at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, it was a triumph over the odds. Having missed a medal at the 2016 Rio Games with a toss that was just two centimetres short, she overcame shoulder surgery in 2017 and a bone-cancer diagnosis in 2018 to compete again.

So when the 25-year-old Andrejczyk heard about a fundraiser for an eight-month-old boy, Miloszek Malysa, who was born with a serious heart defect, she was inspired to help a fellow Pole beat the odds, too. His family needed US$380,000 for a life-saving operation that would be performed in Barcelona. They had already raised half from their own campaign, and Miloszek was running out of time. “It didn’t take me long to decide,” said Andrejczyk, who chose to auction off her medal for the remaining funds. The winning bid of over US$125,000 came from Polish supermarket chain Zabka, which later told Andrejczyk to keep her medal. 

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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Selling an Olympic Medal to Help a Sick Child
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2022, 04:43:50 PM »
Nice story ... although, had the medal not been sold for this charitable cause, I doubt it would have fetched anywhere NEAR the $125,000 that it got.  Perhaps $10,000 at best.  So it was really just a way to inspire the supermarket (or other potential donors) to contribute to the cause ... as evidenced by the fact that they told her to keep the medal.
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Re: Selling an Olympic Medal to Help a Sick Child
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2022, 05:29:01 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on June 01, 2022, 04:43:50 PM
Nice story ... although, had the medal not been sold for this charitable cause, I doubt it would have fetched anywhere NEAR the $125,000 that it got.  Perhaps $10,000 at best.  So it was really just a way to inspire the supermarket (or other potential donors) to contribute to the cause ... as evidenced by the fact that they told her to keep the medal.
Maybe, but the fact that people all chipped in due to one generous act of the first ia amazing.
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