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 ...

The Olympics pin trading tradition has hit Paris. This year's must-have collectible? A Snoop Dogg pin featuring the rapper and NBC Olympics special correspondent blowing smoke rings in the shape of ...

While athletes in London are set on winning Olympic gold, self-described “pinheads” are focused on collecting Olympic brass. Pin traders from across the globe have gathered in London -- not just to ...

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 ...

Disneyland has reigned 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 ...

The collapse of the pin trading market will hardly register amid the more than $15 billion cost of the Tokyo Games, but for avid traders, it’s a huge letdown. “It’s like a boulder falling,” Bud Kling, ...

As Olympic fever takes hold over fans across the globe, there is an Olympic sport of sorts rarely, if ever, making headlines. This sport doesn't involve the athletes, though; rather, this competition ...

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 ...

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 ...