{"id":108827,"date":"2016-08-26T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/athlete-sells-rio-medal-to-help-3-year-old-with-eye-cancer-2\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:28:43","slug":"athlete-sells-rio-medal-to-help-3-year-old-with-eye-cancer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/athlete-sells-rio-medal-to-help-3-year-old-with-eye-cancer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete sells Rio medal to help 3-year-old with eye cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">WARSAW, Poland \u2013 \u00a0<\/span>Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has sold the silver medal he won at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to help pay for the medication of a 3-year-old boy suffering from eye cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Malachowski said on Facebook that siblings Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk, among the richest Poles, &#8220;declared the intention to buy my silver medal,&#8221; which he put up for auction to help pay for treatment of the boy, Olek, who is suffering from retinoblastoma.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mod-25\">\n<h2>More on this&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>When DNA and medical tests disagree about breast cancer risk, which to believe?<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Being overweight may increase risk of 8 cancers<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>How pregnancy may increase the risk of skin cancer, leave babies at risk<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>Malachowski did not reveal the amount raised, but said the target &#8212; which was almost $130,000 &#8212; has been met.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My silver medal is worth much more today than it was a week ago,&#8221; Malachowski said.<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW, Poland \u2013 \u00a0Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has sold the silver medal he won at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics to help pay for the medication of a 3-year-old boy suffering from eye cancer. Malachowski said on Facebook that siblings Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk, among the richest Poles, &#8220;declared the intention to buy my <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/athlete-sells-rio-medal-to-help-3-year-old-with-eye-cancer-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}