This is the incredible true story of Maria Andrejczyk, who auctioned her Tokyo silver medal for $125,000 to save a baby named Milos who had a heart defect.
In a beautiful twist, the Polish supermarket chain that won the auction told her to keep her medal because "a champion belongs with her trophy".
Source :https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1029380896/toyko-olympics-poland-silver-medal-javelin-auction-infant-heart-surgery
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Posted by Dramatic-Grade2165
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Unfortunately many of those ‘children needing lifesaving treatment abroad’ fundraisers happen just because private clinics are exploiting desperate parents.
“mmmmm Marysia”
r/OrphanCrushingMachine
I created this AI visualization to keep this story [Ai generated ](https://youtube.com/shorts/AkBkdUQci_g?si=CMwWI4injYE8LtXE)
Frankly, more is written about it abroad than in Poland. It’s hardly a “legend.”
It s quite common, such auctions end that way.
Can we keep the celebrites and sportsmen out of charities please? Hospitals are pait tax money to do this stuff.