{"id":169604,"date":"2021-08-20T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169604"},"modified":"2021-08-20T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:40:08","slug":"polish-javelin-thrower-raises-money-for-sick-child-by-auctioning-off-olympics-silver-medal-buyer-tells-her-to-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/polish-javelin-thrower-raises-money-for-sick-child-by-auctioning-off-olympics-silver-medal-buyer-tells-her-to-keep-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish javelin thrower raises money for sick child by auctioning off Olympics silver medal; buyer tells her to keep it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warsaw, Aug 19 (AFP): An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from Tokyo Olympics 2020 to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy, and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maria Andrejczyk, a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulder injury to compete at this year\u2019s Olympics, said she decided to auction her medal to help the boy knowing how much she had to \u201cfight against adversity and pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The money is for Milosz Malysa, an infant with a heart defect whose family has been raising funds for him to be operated on in the United States of America. Milosz\u2019s parents posted last week that the boy was at risk of dying soon without the surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zabka, a popular convenience store chain in Poland, bid 200,000 zlotys ($51,000) but said it would let the athlete keep her medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe were moved by the beautiful and extremely noble gesture of our Olympian,\u201d Zabka said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fans have contributed an additional 300,000 ($76,500) to help the boy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before the winning bid was made, the authorities in Andrejczyk\u2019s community in Poland said they were prepared to make her a replica of the medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warsaw, Aug 19 (AFP): An Olympic athlete from Poland auctioned her silver medal from Tokyo Olympics 2020 to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy, and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize. Maria Andrejczyk, a 25-year-old javelin thrower who overcame bone cancer and a shoulder injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}