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"Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctioned off her silver medal she won at the 2020 Olympics in order to pay for an eight-month-old Polish boy's heart surgery. The Polish store chain Żabka Polska won the auction with a bid of $125,000. But Żabka Polska, a convenience store chain, wasn't done there. After the store won the bid for the silver medal, it insisted that Andrejczyk keep it."
The boy's family had set up a fundraising page to get the money for the cost of travel to Stanford University Medical Center and to pay for the surgery there. I find Ms. Andrejxzyk to be a real hero who had her own battle with bone cancer prior to winning the silver medal in Tokyo. I'm also impressed that the store "bought" her medal but refused to accept it.
The boy's family had set up a fundraising page to get the money for the cost of travel to Stanford University Medical Center and to pay for the surgery there. I find Ms. Andrejxzyk to be a real hero who had her own battle with bone cancer prior to winning the silver medal in Tokyo. I'm also impressed that the store "bought" her medal but refused to accept it.
