Olympian Tries to Auction Off Medal to Pay for Infant’s Heart Surgery, But Winning Bidder Refuses Prize

Polish Olympian Maria Andrejczyk gained a silver medal in ladies’s javelin on the Tokyo Olympics, however she’s proved she has a coronary heart of gold after utilizing her platform to assist a toddler in want.

The 25-year-old athlete introduced on Aug. 11 that she can be elevating cash for Miłoszek Małysa, an 8-month-old Polish boy who desperately wants costly coronary heart surgical procedure within the U.S.

And the way in which she deliberate to try this was by auctioning off her medal to the best bidder.

“Miłoszek … has a severe coronary heart defect, he wants an operation,” Andrejczyk wrote on Facebook. “It’s for him that I’m auctioning my Olympic silver medal.”

The boy’s household had already raised about half the mandatory quantity to pay for the process and journey prices, which got here to $385,000, in keeping with Fox News.

Andrejczyk’s determination to public sale off her medal wasn’t a tough one, as she had her sights set on what actually mattered.

“The true worth of a medal at all times stays within the coronary heart,” Andrejczyk mentioned, in keeping with The Times of London. “A medal is barely an object, however it may be of nice worth to others.

“This silver can save lives, as an alternative of amassing mud in a closet. That’s the reason I made a decision to public sale it to assist sick kids.”

However she wasn’t the one one with a beneficiant coronary heart.

In spite of everything was mentioned and accomplished, the medal was bought to an organization known as Żabka — however Andrejczyk’s submit and Miloszek’s plight had obtained a lot consideration that the household had obtained many extra donations.

“On Friday I obtained this excellent data, and on account of the truth that you dears have already accomplished wonders and joint forces have paid greater than the equal of the preliminary medal to the [Miloszek] account — I made a decision to finish the public sale in order that our [Miloszek] will obtain the entire quantity as quickly as attainable and might fly to the USA,” Andrejczyk wrote in an update.

“The winner, and on the similar time, the corporate I might be eternally grateful to is the corporate Żabka.”

However the firm had determined to donate cash for the surgical procedure and let Andrejczyk hold her hard-earned medal.

“We had been moved by the attractive and noble gesture of our Olympian, so we determined to assist the gathering of funds for the sick Miloszek,” Żabka wrote on Facebook.

“We additionally determined that the silver medal from Tokyo will stay with Ms. Maria, who confirmed how nice she is.”

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