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 ...
THE OLYMPIC GAMES have always been about the thrill of earning medals and a podium spot. But if you look closely at attendees' lanyards or athletes' jackets and gear bags, you'll spot a smaller, ...
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 ...
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 ...
1896 Athens Originally small cardboard discs were used as colourful badges to identify the athletes (blue), judges (pink) and officials (red) 1904 Paris The badges were now metal rather than cardboard ...