Polish athlete puts Olympic medal up for sale to help boy with cancer

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. "In Rio I fought for gold," Malachowski said on his Facebook profile. For the health of this fantastic boy." 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.
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