Source: NBC11
If you want your own Olympic gold medal without training for it — today you’ll have your chance. Former Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin is auctioning off the gold medal he won in 2000 to raise money for victims of last year’s tsunami.
Ervin won the medal when he tied for first place in the 50-meter freestyle in Sydney, Australia. He came up with the idea of auctioning off his medal on a trip to Japan.
After the tsunami hit Southeast Asia later in December, he decided to auction his medal and donate the proceeds to the Tsunami Relief Fund. The auction to began Thursday on eBay.
By the way, Ervin is coming out of retirement and hopes to win another gold in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The link to the auction for Anthony Ervin’s gold metal is eBay item number 5191294060. You can link to the auction by clicking here. The auction started at $9,100.