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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While athletes compete on the ice and in the snow, the unofficial sport of the Olympic Games is pin trading. The official sponsor ...

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 ...

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 ...