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. Murray – who posted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My name's Marco Maiani, I live in Florence, Italy and I have collected pins since 1991. I started collecting pins after a holiday in France where I bought my first pin: a tourist pin from the city of ...

Shahkeel Miah is looking for Bangladesh. He is on a lunch break from his job as a security guard at the Olympic Park, and has wandered down to Orbit Circus, the public space next to Anish Kapoor's ...

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 ...

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 ...