Olympic Moving

In recent weeks we have been highlighting great Olympic memories where proceeds go to support the team athletes at the Olympics in China.

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While most of us can not jet off to Beijing for the opening ceremony today, you can get your own Olympic memories of the various gifts with superstar Olympic colors, as the official mascot toys Plush, Olympic pins, a metal replica of the flame, a clipboard design Athens or stress-balls, and so on.

So, let's gift idea that, in this Olympic season, we prefer?

For your Little Children

- Beijing Olympic mascots (2008 Summer Olympics Gifts)

Even if your kids do not know taekwondo, badminton, they can still enjoy the Olympic spirit in the form of plush fuwa (it's Chinese for "good luck dolls"). These colorful critters are some of the creatures more popular in China. Beibei the fish there, Jingjing the panda, Yingying the antelope and Nini is the Swallow Huanhuan the Olympic flame. Put the names together and you get "Welcome to Beijing". These collectibles to pocket size is certainly a notch above the mascots in the past, and are excellent way to educate toddlers on the Olympics and Chinese culture.

Fuwa, the mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, carrying a message of peace and friendship to all children worldwide. Representing the five colors of the Olympic Rings, Fuwa express the playful qualities of children and are characteristic of four of the most popular animals in China - fish, panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow - and the Olympic Flame.

For your friends

- Beijing Olympic Pins (2008 Summer Olympics Gifts)

Olympic Pin Trading has been around since the first modern Olympics in 1896. The first "pins" were originally cardboard disks that were designed to identify the athletes in their country, officials and the press. Some Olympians this year have begun to exchange their own badges with others as gestures of good will, and a tradition began. Right you see a picture of the pin of a judge of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

In the coming decades, many official pins were created to identify different groups, the International Olympic Committee for members of the media. The pins began to become more stylized and look like jewels and were eventually produced for sale to spectators and participants. At the time of the 1924 Summer Games in Paris, the concept of the Olympic Village has begun, and so that the Olympians have started to exchange pins of their country for good.

From 1933 to 1936, more than 1 million pins were sold to the public to help fund the games in Germany. On the right you see the pin very rare Berlin Games in 1936. In 1940, even if the Olympics were canceled during the war, pins were still produced.

In 1968 Mexico City Games, the pin with a pin to fix clitch clothing, which is now the norm, has been introduced. collecting and pin trading Pin took off dramatically in the Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1980 and the Los Angeles Summer Games in 1984. Since then it has become a.