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

[Anarchy99]

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?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

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.

 

[foxco]

This is a great story and much needed these days. 

 

[whoknew]

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.