Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who took silver at the 2016 Rio
Olympics, said that he auctioned off his medal this week to fund
treatment for a three-year-old boy struck with cancer.
The 33-year-old world champion wrote on his Facebook page that he was
moved to auction his prize after receiving a letter from the mother of a
boy called Olek who said he had been battling eye cancer for two years
and that treatment in New York was his only hope.
“I fought for gold in Rio. Today I’m calling on everyone to fight for
something even more precious,” Mr. Malachowski wrote to announce the
auction.
“If you help me, my silver medal may turn out to be more precious than
gold for Olek,” he said, adding that he would use the entire sum raised
to pay for treatment.
“Success,” he later wrote, saying the medal had found takers.
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