Stockholm 1956 Olympic Equestrian Games Torch sells for $412,500 at auction
By Emily Goddard
A Stockholm 1956 Olympic Equestrian Games Torch has sold for $412,500 (£245,000/€297,000) - plus 15 per cent buyer's premium - at auction, making it the second most valuable Olympic Torch ever auctioned.
A Stockholm 1956 Olympic Equestrian Games Torch has sold for $412,500 (£245,000/€297,000) - plus 15 per cent buyer's premium - at auction, making it the second most valuable Olympic Torch ever auctioned.
April 28 - South Korean figure skating star Yuna Kim has held a launch event for medals commemorating her retirement from the sport after twice postponing the event due to the Sewol ferry disaster.
April 27 - Sales of limited edition medals commemorating the career of retired South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim have been postponed here because of the ferry disaster which has killed at least 200 people. 
April 25 - A Stockholm 1956 Olympic Equestrian Games Torch is estimated to fetch $175,000 (£104,000/€127,000) when it goes to auction in the United States tomorrow.
April 20 - A second "Miracle on Ice" Olympic gold medal is set to go auction this week after Mark Pavelich, a member of the famous United States team, announced he will be selling his through a Dallas auction house.
April 17 - Royal Mail will issue a range of special Commonwealth Games stamps in July to mark the start of Glasgow 2014, it has been announced.
April 3 - A new batch of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games pins for the Cayman Islands team has been made available for purchase by the Cayman Islands Olympic Committee (CIOC).
Premium editions of the specially designed Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games 50 pence coin have been released by the Royal Mint and are now available to purchase.
A specially designed 50 pence ($0.82/€0.60) coin to mark the staging of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 will be launched by The Royal Mint and enter circulation next year.
December 27 - Three stamps featuring famous Olympic ice hockey champions have been launched at a special ceremony at Moscow's CSKA Ice Sports Complex ahead of Sochi 2014.
December 8 - An anonymous bidder has paid $1,466,574 (£897,445/€1,070,056) for an Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at Berlin 1936, the highest price ever for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.
Sochi 2014 have unveiled a special set of stamps depicting each of the five Olympic and Paralympic Games' mascots which are available to the public in time for the New Year as part of its philatelic programme.
December 2 - One of four Olympic gold medals won by American track and field star Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games has been put up for auction and is expected to bring in as much as $1 million (£609,000/€738,000) when the sale closes on Saturday (December 7).
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has revealed the official print for Team GB at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics which is called "Ice" and has been created by renowned artist Sir Howard Hodgkin.
Estonian Olympic cycling champion Erika Salumae's gold medals from Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992 have sold for £25,000 ($40,000/€30,000) each at an auction in London.
