(01-19-2020, 07:29 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote:(01-19-2020, 02:57 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(01-19-2020, 12:47 AM)Dancefortwo Wrote: I've been spending the last two weeks making inquiries among skating forums and on youtube to find out who bought John Curry's medals. It was not only his Olympic gold medal but his Men's World Skating gold medal and his European Men's gold medal and maybe a few more awards. I just found out that a woman named Francis Bates in the UK bought it for £22,000 in 1994. Hummm, I wonder if she's still around. If I can connect with her or her children....this is a big IF... but if I can and then connect with John's surviving brother what my plans are is to get a Gofundme account and raise enough money to buy the medals back and give them to his brother. I'm sure the medals are worth a whole lot more today.
Do you guys think I'm nuts to do this?
You have a big heart and it's in the right place but I'm skeptical the reward would be worth the effort. Sounds like it's going to be a ton of money. The reward would be the joy and pleasure and warm feelings the brother and family would get upon such a surprise, but who knows how much they would really be touched, deep down. They would no doubt be thankful but after initial "wow!" factor it might not mean that much to them with all this time gone by. That said, of course I have no clue.
I was planning on getting a Go Fund Me account and contacting skating forums and just putting the word out on solcial media to fund a buy back of the medals - BUT I searched some more and is seems that after John Curry sold his medals to pay for his AIDS care a huge fan of his bought them back in 1995 for 22,000 pounds and gave them back to his mother. YAY!!!
Now I can sleep better.
Well that turned out good. But now your giving impulse has no direction, so let me help you re-direct your Go Fund Me efforts. I would like you to raise enough money for me to enjoy an orgy with about ten supermodels. I call this program "Jerry's Kids." Who will help me in this extraordinarily worthy and important charity? Give, people. Give til it hurts.
