Planning is in the works for an “official” pin-trading center during the 2026 Winter and 2028 Olympic Games. Honav USA owner Mario Simonson, the exclusive pin licensee for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, explained to the annual Olympin Collectors Club Memorabilia Festival held in Atlanta, Georgia in November 2024, that a stronger presence for pin trading is already assured.

An unofficial pin-trading center was created at the Parc de la Villette in Paris by the International Association of Olympic Collectors (AICO) and the Association Francaise des Collectionneurs Olympiques et Sportifs (AFCOS) as the “Official Olympic Collectors Area” and demonstrated the enduring popularity of the concept.

“But we’re going to have, you know, not just a pin-trading center, but we’re going to have a museum that’s going to be connected with the pin-trading center that will have a lot of, like, the old, maybe old ‘32 and ‘84 product, you know from the L.A. Games. …

“[T]here’s going to be activations, I’m going to do a lot of activations. So you get a pin from here and you get a pin from here and you bring it back to the pin-training center and you get a free pin, you know, doing something like that. A pin of the day … there’s just so much stuff we want to do.”

This is very similar to prior Olympic Games, such as in 1996 during the Atlanta Olympic Games, in which a special daily pin was released and to collect the entire set was truly a remarkable feat!

We will stay on top of announcements for pin trading venues during the 2026 Winter Games venues. Please return to this page over the next year for additional information as the news becomes available.