Millionaire picks up a baby from the street five minutes later realizes he needed help. For an athlete, an Olympic medal is a priceless possession. Athletes train for years to get to the Olympic Games aims all with one similar goal in mind to win a coveted Olympic medal. That’s exactly what Peter Malikowski did. The discus thrower competed in the Rio Olympics and he won a silver medal for his country.
But when he returned to home, he did something quite different from other athletes. He probably put the medal up for auction. Poland’s Peter Malakowski is one of the world’s top discus throwers. He has a solid Olympic record. He won a silver medal in Beijing during the 2008 Games and is also the proud owner of the fifth longest discus throw ever 71 point 84 meters.
That’s really far. But at the Rio Olympics, the competition was intense. If Malikowski wanted to take home a medal, it would be one of the biggest challenges of his life. In the end, a German competitor for the gold in Rio narrowly edged him out. But still, he was plenty proud to take another silver medal for his country.
Now a two time Olympic medalist, Malikowski was flooded with Congratulations and well wishes after his final throw. But one letter of Congratulations stood out to him because it was from a mother desperate for his help. Her name is Ghoshia, Malakowski wrote, and her threeyearold son, Olek, was suffering from a rare form of cancer known as retinoblastoma, or cancer of the eye.
Though the disease is treatable, ghostia wrote to Malakowski that the only way to save her son’s eyesight was to take him to New York City for treatment by a top ophthalmologist. Needless to say, that would be far too expensive for her family to afford on its own.
When a child is gravely ill, there’s almost nothing their parents wouldn’t do, including writing to Olympic athletes for help. The family had created a fundraising page to help get Olivia to the US for treatment, but so far they had only raised about 20% of the money they needed. Moved by the letter, the athlete said he was auctioning off his medal and donating all proceeds to the family to help Olek in Rio. I fought for the gold today. I appealed to everyone, Melikowski wrote on Facebook in Polish.
Let’s fight together about something that’s even more precious the health of this fantastic boy. So you are all invited to the auction if you help me, my silver can be more precious than gold. When Malikowski heard Olak? S story, he knew the timing was fake and he decided he had to help. An organization called SIPA.
Maga had already raised a significant amount of money for Ola’s treatment, but there was a long way to go. The total fundraising goal was $126,000, so the Olympian ponyed up the most valuable thing he owned his most recent silver medal. In a Facebook post, he told his followers he was putting his prize medal up for auction to cover the rest of the costs in Rio. I fought for gold, he wrote. Today I call on all people let us fight together for something that’s even more valuable for the health of this fantastic boy.
The auction lasted only a few days before a wealthy brother and sister made Mallikowski a private offer he couldn’t refuse. Espn reported that the top bid for Peter’s Metal was roughly $19,000 before the final offer came in. Though we didn’t share the exact amount, Malikowski made it clear in another Facebook post that the final sale price was enough to cover the rest of Ola’s treatment. Thank you everyone who took part in the auction, he wrote. We were able to show that together we can make miracles.
My silver medal today is worth much more than a week ago. Malikowski’s massively selfless act is only the beginning of this story. Three year old Olek still has a long fight ahead of him. Hopefully, with the world’s top doctors working tirelessly to treat his disease, he can come out on top. We’re rooting for you, buddy.
And as for Malekowski himself, he may be down one medal, but after this priceless gift, he certainly earned the right to be called the People’s Champion forever. With his post going viral, Peter received countless bids from around the world, but he finally sold it to Dominica and Sebastian Colchic, a well off Polish couple with a net worth of about $4 billion. He mentioned that the amount they paid was enough to complete the fundraiser.
A Polish Foundation called SIPA MAGA had already gathered about a third of the roughly $126,000 it was said to be needed to finance the boys treatment at Optimalic oncologist David Abramson’s Clinic in New York, reported Reuters. We were able to demonstrate that together we can make miracles.
My silver medal is today worth much more than it was a week ago. It’s worth the life and health of little Olek. This is our great shared success, said Peter to his fans. Peter Malakowski, born the 7 June 1983, is a Polish retired discus thrower, two time silver medalist at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics. His personal best throw is 71.
84 meters, ranks him fifth in alltime longest discus throw distances achieved on the 8 June 2013 at Hangallo, the Netherlands. Malakowski’s throwing distances are seen as even more remarkable as he’s not as tall as most discus throwers. Malikowski is one inch shorter than Beijing Olympic champion Gerd Kantor and three inches shorter than world champion Robert Harding and discus great Virgilius Alenka. The typical height of a discus thrower is between 195 and 2 meters. Despite his height disadvantage, Malachowski makes up for it with his incredible ring speed.
Malikowski is seen as one of the quickest discus throwers in the ring of all time, closely followed by Robert Fizekis. On 19 August 2008, he won an Olympic silver medal in discus throw, placing behind Gerd Kanter on 23rd May 2009 inhale he threw 68 point 75 meters with a new PB and NR. On 14 July 2009, he was second in IAAF Golden League Berlin, Germany to be only beaten by Gerd Cantor with an injured finger. Malikowski took a silver medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. In 2010, he took victory in Golden Gala IAF Diamond League, beating second place Gerd Canter and another win in British Grand Prix.
On August 13, 2016, Malikowski won his second Olympic silver, being surprisingly beaten by German Christopher Harding. He announced shortly afterwards that he would sell his Olympic silver medal to raise funds for a three year old boy with a rare form of cancer. The medal was sold in an auction a few days later.
Malikowski missed out on a place in the final IAAF World Athletes Championships in Doha, but the pole is still performing at a very high level. He achieved a notable win on home soil at the European Athletics Team Championships in Birdsock, ahead of his prospective world champion Daniel Stahl from Sweden and also finished second for Team Europe at the match.
Malikowski will continue his cooperation with Kantor in his final season of athletics, and he is also drawn on the services of a sports psychologist to help him prepare mentally for his fourth and final Olympic appearance. We’ve had several conversations. For now, I’ve forgotten about Qatar. I feel mentally rested, Mallikowski told Polish media. There is a desire and the belief that I can throw far.
I still dream about Olympic gold. Malikowski is one of the most popular figures on the Polish team, not only for his fine performances in the circle, but also for his philanthropy. Malikowski famously auctioned his Olympic silver medal from 2016 to raise funds for a young boy who needed treatment for a rare form of cancer. Mallikowski is 7th in the world all time list for the discus, with his Polish record of 71 point 84 meters set in Hangello in 2013. If you have enough to share, you should do so because it brings joy and for some, it can even save their life.
As an element of this classroom exercise, Dr. Sabilski pulled his class of over 80 students about whether they should nominate the two Polish athletes to the International Committee for Fair Play. It was a unanimous decision. Then 19 year old Zoha Tariq, a female student of Pakistani heritage, wrote to the International Fair Play Committee on behalf of her sociology class. These hard earned medals represent the success achieved from years and years of grueling, hard work, irrefutable passion and relentless dedication by these athletes.
However, when most would hold tight to their victory and even brag about it, these two athletes have shown the utmost respect to their fellow human beings by using their victory to help those in dire need. I feel it our duty to return their kindness by rewarding them for their sacrifices and respecting them for their strong spirits.
The stories of these two athletes have inspired the students at our College on a very personal level and we would like to nominate these two remarkable Olympic athletes and fantastic fellow human beings for the Fair Play Awards.
Professor Sabwski, himself a former member of the Polish National cycling team, explained, There was a lot of talk last year about the generosity of these athletes, but no one connected these events with the broader notion of fair play until our project. Few of Dr.