Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has put up for sale the silver medal he won at the Rio Olympics to help raise funds for a boy with a rare cancer, the athlete said on Friday.
Reigning world champion Malachowski said all the money raised from the auction would be spent on treating 3-year old Polish boy Olek Szymanski, who has suffered for nearly two years from retinoblastoma, an eye cancer affecting young children.
A Polish foundation called Siepomaga has already gathered about a third of the roughly 4,80,000 zlotys ($126,000) it said was needed to finance the boy’s treatment at ophthalmic oncologist David Abramson’s clinic in New York.
The highest bid in the auction for Malachowski’s silver medal on Poland’s Allegro website had reached about $6,000 by 1610 GMT on Friday. The auction ends on 26 August.
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