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A Polish discus thrower who put the silver medal he recently won at the Rio Games on auction to pay for the treatment of a 3-year-old boy with eye cancer ended the auction three days early, after the richest couple in Poland bought it.Piotr Malachowski wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he prematurely closed the auction because Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk declared their willingness to buy my silver medal for an amount which enables us to meet the goal set.The auction for the medal was at roughly $19,000 on Tuesday when it was pulled down.Malachowski was looking for about $84,000 so that a boy named Olek Szymanski could get surgery for his retinoblastoma in New York to try to save the childs eyesight. The total cost of the surgery is $126,000, but one-third of it was already raised by the Polish foundation Siepomaga.We were able to show that together we can do wonders, Malachowski wrote. My silver medal today is worth a lot more than a week ago. It is worth the life and health of a small Olek. It is our great shared success.The Kulczyks, who are brother and sister, inherited their fortune from their father, Jan, who passed away in July 2015. The two are worth $3.4 billion combined, according to Forbes Magazine.Poland won 11 medals in the Rio Games, including two golds, three silvers and six bronzes.Tyler Seguin Stars Jersey . Philadelphia is 2-0 against the Senators this season and scored five goals in each victory. The Flyers recorded a 5-0 win in Ottawa on Nov. 12 and then earned a 5-2 home decision on Nov. 19. The Flyers have claimed three straight and four of the last five encounters with the Sens overall and Philly has won two in a row and three of its past four tests in Canadas capital city. Esa Lindell Jersey . The Australian is competing in his final season in Formula One and still looking for his first win this year. He will look to end Vettels run of six straight race wins on Sunday. 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The Minnesota Timberwolves are just hoping to get to the playoffs for the first time in years.Those two teams will open their 2016-17 seasons on Wednesday in Memphis. And theyll each do so with new coaches.Memphis David Fizdale is in his first year as an NBA head coach. Fizdale, 42, spent the last six seasons as an assistant with the Miami Heat. He inherits a club that finished 42-40 last season, which was good enough for the seventh seed in the Western Conference.Fizdale has said he hopes to instill a balanced system in Memphis, with Mike Conley Jr. as the focal point. The Grizzlies also have weapons in Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph and new addition Chandler Parsons.When you know that the offense isnt just predicated on one guy and that every movement you make gives you a chance to be a part of the action, to make you a weapon, its empowering, Fizdale told Sports Illustrated.Conley begins this season on the heels of the largest contract in NBA history. This past offseason, the Grizzlies signed Conley to a five-year, $153 million deal to keep the point guard in Memphis. That will put an added weight on the shoulders of the nine-year NBA veteran.As far as the pressure, its hard to really gauge that because I put pressure on myself to perform regardless, Conley told ESPN.com this offseason. The amount of money I make is not going to change how I approach the game.Like Memphis, MMinnesota enters the season with a new coach and high expectations.dddddddddddd Tom Thibodeau, former Chicago Bulls coach, takes over after the Timberwolves let interim coach Sam Mitchell go following last years 29-win season.Thibodeau begins his first year in Minnesota with a pair of Rookies of the Year at his disposal. Karl-Anthony Towns emerged for a stellar rookie campaign last season, averaging a double-double (18.3 points and 10.5 rebounds). His honor as the top rookie came one year after Wolves forward Andrew Wiggins earned the award. Wiggins led the team with 20.7 points per game last season.Minnesota has been starved for a winning team for years. The Timberwolves havent finished above .500 since the 2004-05 season and had the fifth-worst record in the league last year.Thibodeau never had a losing season in five years as the Bulls coach and was ousted after going 50-32 two years ago. A record like that in Minnesota this year would be a huge step forward for the young Timberwolves.But even Thibodeau knows Minnesota has a ways to go in order to be competitive in the West.We dont want to fool ourselves, he told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Were a 29-win team. We want to close the gap.These same two teams faced off in the preseason, with the Timberwolves topping the Grizzlies 101-94 in Minneapolis a week ago. ' ' '