While taking home a gold medal is the ultimate goal at the Olympics, some athletes are also looking to collect the special edition pins at the games. Pin trading has been common practice at the ...

Pin trading has become a hallmark of the Olympics in recent decades — and not just for athletes. An official trading center ...

Olympic pin trading is back for the 2024 Paris Games — and more popular than ever. The longstanding tradition, sometimes referred to as the "unofficial sport of the Olympics," involves trading and ...

Disneyland has reined in “professional” pin traders who bring thousands of collectible pins to the Anaheim theme park by extremely limiting the amount of time, number of pins and trading locations ...

The night before he flew to France, 19-year-old London collector Josh Waller had — quite literally — thousands of pins strewn across his bedroom. He was sorting through his collection to decide which ...

Collectors travel from all over the world to trade and purchase pins representing past, present and future Olympic Games.

The Olympics may be taking over Peacock and TV screens, but there’s another event happening behind the scenes that TikTokers are loving just as much: Olympic pin trading. One thing about the Olympic ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE OLYMPIC GAMES have always been about the thrill of earning medals and a podium spot. But if you look ...

MILAN — You don’t have to be an athlete to leave the Olympics with a coveted piece of metal, as long as you’re game to trade lapel pins. The pins come in all shapes and sizes, usually made of enamel ...