From Stephen Curry, to Simone Biles, to Andy Murray, and Serena Williams, the world's best athletes continue a time-honored tradition of swapping rare Olympic pins for ultimate bragging rights
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Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, has arrived at the Games with a stash of gold-colored pin badges marked with her name to swap with fans and fellow competitors. Curry has won virtually every trophy in professional basketball and his $55.8 million salary next season makes him the highest-paid player in the NBA.
Former world No. 1 Andy Murray was bragging that he had scored a rare one from Guam, the island in the Western Pacific that has just eight athletes in Paris.The official Olympics website traces pin trading back to the first modern Games in 1896, where athletes wore cardboard badges.
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