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  • Jedrzejczak to sell gold medal for sick children

    08/19/2004 7:49:37 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 6 replies · 462+ views
    Eurosport ^ | 19/08/2004r
    Poland's first Olympic swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak said she plans to sell her gold medal to raise money for sick children. A household name in Poland, Jedrzejczak has won three of the central European country's four medals so far in Athens, including the only gold - for Wednesday's 200 metres butterfly. "After returning home I plan to auction off my gold medal and donate all of the money to children afflicted by leukaemia," she told heavyweight daily Rzeczpospolita, which like other Polish newspapers splashed her success across its front page. "It will be difficult to part with it, but...that is...