TOKYO: At every Olympics, away from the hordes of cheering spectators and the athletes competing for medals, pin enthusiasts lay out dozens of badges on corkboards or soft cloth in hopes of making a trade.
"It's painful," not being able to hold trading sessions, said Yoshiyuki Terajima, a 51-year-old pin enthusiast based in Tokyo. Much of the trading, done through face-to-face negotiations and close contact, had to be suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, trading the pins was a rare hobby until the Winter Games which took place in the mountain city in 1998.
Tamai was exhilarated when Tokyo won the bid to host the Olympics, but now says that he doesn't quite know how he is supposed to enjoy the pandemic Games.
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