“Unfortunately there is so little pins that have been shaken loose,” says Tanya Ollick, a 57-year-old network engineer from Seattle, who joined the Olympic collecting community during the Lond ...

The longstanding tradition, sometimes referred to as the "unofficial sport of the Olympics," involves trading and collecting official country pins as well as pins from media networks, host cities ...

each eager to begin or expand their Olympic pin collection and share their stories. “People are wired to trade. Human beings, we want to trade,” asserts Craig Robbins, a passionate pin collec ...

each eager to begin or expand their Olympic pin collection and share their stories. “People are wired to trade. Human beings, we want to trade,” asserts Craig Robbins, a passionate pin collect ...

So why pins? “I don’t know why,” Reeves said. “I just started collecting them and it snowballed.” On his backpack is a metallic rainbow of metal dragons, DnD emblems, rabbits with beer ...