5 Things You Didn’t Know About Olympic Pins

This story is part of “Atlanta Remembers: The 1996 Olympics,” WABE’s series on the impact of the 1996 Summer Olympics on Atlanta, 20 years later. For more stories, click here.

Swapping Olympics pins is almost as much a sport as the games themselves. There are legends, bids and winners. Each enameled prize symbolizes a place in time, a memory or a new friendship. For some people, Olympic pin collections are badges of honor representing their archival knowledge of the modern Olympic Games. For the rest of us, here are some interesting tidbits that you may not know about the time-honored tradition of Olympic pin trading and collecting.

The Atlanta Varsity pin is a hot commodity in the Atlanta Olympics pin collecting circle.

Credit Alison Guillory / WABE

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