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 ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. While athletes in London are set on winning Olympic gold, self-described “pinheads” are focused on collecting Olympic brass. Pin traders ...

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 ...

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 ...

Athletes, fans and staff collect and trade pins representing countries, sports and more during the Olympic Games Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2015 and ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — While the 2022 Winter Olympics are going down in Beijing, a ballroom in the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hosted a specialized sport on its own - of sorts. Pin trading is an Olympic tradition as ...

Collectors travel from all over the world to trade pins at the Olympics. Maja Hitij / Getty Images MILAN — Away from the thrills of hockey and the dazzles of figure skating, another type of sport ...

There’s a lot of mystery about what goes on behind the scenes at the Olympic Games. As a former Olympian, I'm sorry to tell you that it’s not all sex or bust as the headlines might lead you to believe ...

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 ...