More of this, please:

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Polish javelinist Maria Andrejczyk auctioned her #Tokyo2020 silver medal for $125k USD to help send 8-month-old Miłoszek Małysa to Stanford University for heart surgery

Żabka, a chain of Polish supermarkets, submitted the winning bid before giving the medal back to Andrejczyk

Link to tweet

Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctions silver medal to help an infant get heart surgery

Javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk has auctioned off her Tokyo Games silver medal for $125,000 to help an infant in her native Poland get life-saving heart surgery.

On Wednesday, Andrejczyk posted on her Facebook page that she came across the fundraiser for 8-month-old Miłoszek Małysa, who had a serious heart defect and needed surgery, and she decided to auction off her lone Olympic medal to help raise money for his surgery.

"He already has a head start from Kubus -- a boy who didn't make it in time but whose amazing parents decided to pass on the funds they collected," she wrote in Polish on her page.

"And in this way, I also want to help. It's for him that I am auctioning my Olympic silver medal."

https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/32040807/polish-javelin-thrower-maria-andrejczyk-auctions-silver-medal-help-toddler-get-heart-surgery

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1. Commendable story. One strong way to use one's platform.

[CatWoman]

2. yes

much, much more

[IcyPeas]

3. Also Naomi Osaka donating prize winnings to Haiti earthquake

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/16/naomi-osaka-prize-earnings-haiti-earthquake-western-southern-open

Naomi Osaka to donate prize earnings to Haiti earthquake relief efforts
Tennis star, who is of Haitian and Japanese descent, will play in the Western and Southern Open, which has a $255,220 prize

The tennis star Naomi Osaka has announced that she will donate prize earnings from her next tournament to support relief efforts in Haiti, where a 7.2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 1,297 people over the weekend and injured more than 5,700.