Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While taking home a gold medal is the ultimate goal at the Olympics, some athletes are also looking to collect the special edition ...

The seven-time Olympic medalist brought her own custom pins to trade as part of a long-standing tradition at the Games Tanisha Bhat is a Digital Producer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While hundreds of athletes from over 90 countries are seeking gold, silver and bronze medals at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games, spectators are seeking out a different type of metal – the ...

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 ...