On Monday, Right to Playintroduced an online auction that allows internet bidders around the world toacquire memorabilia from the Beijing Olympics that has been donated by theathletes and sponsors of the games to raise funds for the organization?soperations.Koss says the bids for abasketball shirt signed by the US Olympic men?s basketball squad drewconsiderable interest, as did the Olympic torch.The auction will continue online for several days in the nextweek after the Olympics closes and Koss says he hopes both the Right to Playweb site and the eBay auction web site will continue to generate anenthusiastic response.He notes thatthe increased funding will allow the organization to expand the countries itoperates in from 22 to 26 with the addition of Burundi, Botswana, and Kenya, aswell as the group?s first Latin American venture, Peru.
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