OLYMPIAN SELLS SILVER MEDAL TO RAISE FUNDS FOR BABY OPERATION

Maria Andrejczyk, a Polish athlete who won a silver medal in the javelin in the Tokyo Olympics, auctioned off her medal for $125,000 to help a baby in her country get life-saving heart surgery in the US. Andrejczyk decided to sell her medal to raise funds for 8-month-old Miloszek Malysa, who has to travel to California to undergo the surgery at Stanford University Medical Center for a heart defect. Andrejczyk herself is a cancer survivor. She said she’s doing the good deed after reading the baby’s parents’ pleas online. And – happy ending for Andrejczyk – the winning bidder rewarded her kindness by letting her keep her medal.
* But he gets visiting privileges one weekend a month and every other holiday.
* She may have come in second, but she’s the real Number One.
* I don’t know. For heart surgery in the U.S., $125,000 sounds like it would just cover the entry fee.
* They could have operated on thousands of babies for what Japan paid for all that Olympic infrastructure that no one came to.