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Pin-demonium hits Paris: Inside pin-trading market at 2024 Olympics

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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 center

Olympic pins are worn by a volunteer in Paris, France, prior to the start of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.

"Do you have any pins?" a Starbucks barista asks every journalist who comes in for coffee at the Palais des Congrès, the Olympics' main press center.Olympic Committee recommends Salt Lake City as preferred host for 2034 Winter Games Los Angeles 1984 was pivotal, according to the many pin traders on the streets — that's where many of them started collecting.

Britain's Andy Murray, the tennis player who just retired in Paris, is also all-in pin trading, according to former tennis player Laura Robson on Eurosport. Wearing clothes seems to be the sole condition to participating. Traders and collectors adorn themselves — their badges, their shirts, their hats — with mosaics of multicolored pins, sparkling in the Paris summer light.

 

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