Marantz usually attends for three weeks: the 16 days of the games — with a few more days tacked onto the beginning and end to trade Olympic pins. The 76-year-old retired businessman and Jewish ...

You can get a Snoop Dogg cookbook, you can wear the Snoop Dogg collection of Sketchers, but can you sport the Snoop Dogg Olympic pin? “The Doggfather” and Long Beach native gifted United ...

In Rio, Caroline Wozniacki went ham trading pins with her fellow elite athletes. The Dane's credential lanyard looked too heavy to wear by trip's end. Woznaicki wasn't the only WTA star with a mad ...

Andy Murray has competed incredibly hard at this Olympics, as is his wont. Six days into the Games, he has already gathered around 70 pins – each representing a different nation.

"Once they do it, they'll kind of get bitten and get into the hoopla. Pin trading is a huge part of the Olympic spirit." Khonsari discovered pin collecting through his friend, Corey Wade ...

Beach volleyball players Miles Evans and Chase Budinger borrowed sabres for a friendly bout. It wouldn’t be the Olympics without pin trading. Defending women’s foil gold medalist Kiefer is embracing ...

In addition to retail pins, Honav also is working with sponsors to create pins for their Olympic programs. The company was one of four pin licensees for Beijing and created all of Coca-Cola's pins ...

On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market – more wholesome than cutthroat – has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the centre of it all? Pins. The city has ...