The rarer the pin badge, the more prized it is Pin badge collecting may not be a hobby immediately associated with the Olympics, but a gathering of "pinheads" in Stratford revealed their addiction is ...

PARIS – Forget the medals. The top prize for many at the 2024 Paris Olympics is a shiny, heart-shaped Simone Biles pin. Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, has arrived at the Games with a ...

Footfall – which in these parlous days means the sound of shoppers checking out goods before going home to order on the internet – is brisk in the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, as you ...

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 ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Olympic pin badge traders have been disappointed by the lack of spectators at most Tokyo Games competitions, and the consequent lost opportunities to interact with like-minded ...

Andy Murray is playing his last professional tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics and reportedly trying to enjoy every aspect of the sporting extravaganza. Murray's former doubles partner Laura ...

While Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have been picking up medals, collecting of a different sort has been hugely popular at the Rio Olympics. Camped outside the Main Press Centre entrance on my journey ...

The Accrington Stanley Supporters Trust (OASST) has acquired a rare collection of club pin badges, with one badge thought to be more than 100 years old. Lifelong Stanley supporter and former chair of ...

The official Harry Potter Fan Club by Wizarding World Digital launched a new collectible range of enamel pin badges this month, celebrating the events, characters and locations of J.K. Rowling’s ...

Pin badge collecting may not be a hobby immediately associated with the Olympics, but a gathering of "pinheads" in Stratford revealed their addiction is fuelled by a passion for the Games. The meeting ...