Rare 2006 Torino USA Paralympic Team Hexagonal NOC Sports Pin

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Rare USA Paralympic Team NOC Sports
Pin
from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games held in Torino, Italy. About 1 1/4" high and 1 1/4" wide. Standard clasp fastener. New. Part of a rare set by AMINCO made exclusively for the USA Olympic Committee and Paralympic Committee and for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
2006 Torino-
A record 2,508 athletes from 80 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed at the Turin Winter Games, and 26 NOCs took home medals, another record. Austrians dominated Alpine skiing, gaining 14 of the 30 medals awarded. South Korea displayed equal success in short-track speed skating (gaining 10 medals of the 24 awarded). On the women’s side, Sun-Yu Jin earned three gold medals, and for the men Hyun-Soo Ahn won three golds and one bronze. The other triple-gold winner was Michael Greis in biathlon. Cindy Klassen earned medals in five of the six women’s speed skating events. Another speed skater, Claudia Peschstein, won a gold and a silver to become the first athlete in her sport to earn nine career medals. With his victory in the Super G, Kjetil Andre Aamodt became the first Alpine skier to earn four medals in the same event and the first to win four gold medals in total. At the age of 39, skeleton specialist Duff Gibson became the oldest athlete in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to win a gold medal in an individual event. Andre Lange drove to victory in the two-man bobsled and then defended his Olympic championship in the four-man event. During the cross-country skiing team sprint, Sara Renner of Canada broke one of her poles. Norwegian head coach Bjørnar Håkensmoen, seeing her struggle, gave her one of his (albeit 12 cm too long). This allowed Renner to help her team win silver medals, and dropped Norway out of the medals. Bjørnar Håkensmoen’s display of fair play clearly demonstrates true sportsmanship.
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What is an NOC? A National Olympic Committee is the governing and coordinating Olympic organization within a specific nation. It works with the various national sports associations and federations, promotes the Olympic movement, fields national teams for regional and international competitions, and coordinates bids for candidate cities for future Games. Each committee is further associated with one of five continental Olympic Associations organized according to geographic location. The 200+ current NOCs are members of the IOC (International Olympic Committee).
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