Although once, he and his wife traded five pins for a collector's item that they really wanted. RIO DE JANEIRO - Basketball legend Yao Ming, Prince Albert II of Monaco and a former Finnish president -- an eclectic range of people that Olympic badge enthusiast Sidney Marantz has traded pins with. As well as national Olympic committee pins, badges by some of the Games' sponsors, -- such as Coca-Cola -- also feature in his collection. He picked out a "classic" badge with the letters 'USA' in red above the five Olympic rings as one of his favourites. "At Torino ten years ago I was very excited because I thought I was trading with the Finnish Olympic committee president.

Source: Bangkok Post August 06, 2016 17:48 UTC