A Polish discus thrower has sold his silver medal from the Rio 2016 Olympics to help a three-year-old boy with eye cancer.
波兰一名铁饼运动员网上拍卖自己的2016里约奥运银牌，帮助一名3岁儿童治疗眼癌。
"I did everything in my power to get it (a glod medal). Unfortunately, this time it didn't work. But fate gave me a chance to increase the value of my 'Silver'," wrote Piotr Malachowski on Facebook.
He appealed for raising money for Olek Szymanski, who is suffering a rare cancer that only attacks kids under five years old.
The athlete launched an
auction on www.charytatywni.
allegro.pl, a website
helping non-government organizations to collect money for their charity goals.
The aim of the auction is to raise funds to send little Szymanski for teatment in the United States because Poland lacks the relevant technology. It's reported that an eye operation for the boy costs over 125,000 U.S. dollars.
On Aug. 24, Malachowski, who also won a silver medal in Beijing in 2008, wrote on Facebook that the charitable drive had been a success, saying Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk, the heirs of late Polish billionaire Jan Kulczyk, bought his medal with the highest bid.
"We are able to show that together we can make miracles. My
sliver medal today is worth much more than a week ago ... This is a big success," he said in the note.
相关单词：auction
auction解释：n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖
auction例句：
They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
相关单词：allegro
allegro解释：adj. 快速而活泼的；n.快板；adv.活泼地
allegro例句：
The first movement is a conventional symphonic Allegro.第一乐章是传统的交响乐快板。
My life in university is like allegro.我的生活在大学中像急速的乐章。
相关单词：helping
helping解释：n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
helping例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
相关单词：sliver
sliver解释：n.裂片，细片，梳毛；v.纵切，切成长片，剖开
sliver例句：
There was only one sliver of light in the darkness.黑暗中只有一点零星的光亮。
Then,one night,Monica saw a thin sliver of the moon reappear.之后的一天晚上，莫尼卡看到了一个月牙。
