Name: Nicholas Skillicorn

From: London

How long have you been collecting? Since London 2012 Games

How many pins do you own? 40

When the Games were about to begin, I was a bit nonplussed about pins. I worked for one of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) so I got given quite a lot of standard ones. But then I started picking them up from the sponsors I work with and wore them all day around my ID lanyard. People began to comment, and I got more enthusiastic. Then people came up to me and began asking if they could trade.

I set myself a target of collecting several types of pins:
- My countries: UK, Germany, South Africa, Romania, Singapore (but I didn't get that one)
- Volleyball (my sport)
- Olympic sponsors I worked with
- Countries I saw competing during the Games: Brazil, Russia, USA, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Australia
- Paralympics pins

I was so happy that by the end of the Games I had a collection missing only one.

And then on the final day, on a night out, someone stole my lanyard and all my pins were lost. Gutted!