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Maria Andrejczyk - Feel Good Story All Around (1 Viewer)

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Polish Olympian auctions silver medal for infant's heart surgery, but winning bidder won't accept it

Cliffs Notes Version:
- Polish Olympian Maria Andrejczyk battled back from cancer to win a Silver Medal in the javelin in Tokyo a few weeks ago.
- She started an on-line fundraising page to raise $385,000 for an 8-month-old boy to have life saving heart surgery.
- When that goal wasn't met, she put her Silver Medal up for auction to get the rest of the money to help save the boy.
- Żabka Polska won the auction with a bid of $125,000 . . . but insisted Andrejczyk keep her medal and just donated the money instead.
- The boy is scheduled to have the surgery at Stanford University (fingers crossed).

Who knew that there are people still out there that care about other people besides themselves?

 
Great story all around. First to the athlete who was willing to give up her biggest prize to help a child she's not even related to. Second to the winning bidder who knows that medal means more to the athlete than to them.

 
I mean - it is a nice story. But its a bit of a messed up story too, right? An 8 year old boy would only live if he has $385k. And a woman was going to raise that for him by selling the reward of something she worked her entire life for.

 

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