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Collecting for 2010 Winter Olympics

Winter Olympic Sports Memorabilia collections can be around the particular games, a sport or a person. But should the collection be for fun, passion or money? That's up to you but if you start with fun or passion and then learn to choose wisely, you can have them all.

The winter Olympics are staged every four years, two years apart from the summer Olympics. The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France in 1924. Prior to this, figure skating and ice hockey had been events at the Summer Olympics. Prior to this, figure skating and ice hockey had been events at the Summer Olympics.

The sports that are now in the Winter Olympics are:
· Alpine skiing
· Biathlon
· Bobsled
· Cross-country skiing
· Curling
· Figure skating
· Freestyle skiing
· Ice hockey
· Luge
· Nordic combined
· Short track speed skating
· Skeleton
· Ski jumping
· Snowboarding
· Speed skating

The Winter Olympics also has demonstration events including Bandy, Ice stock sport ski ballet, Skijoring, sled-dog racing, speed skiing and the winter pentathlon.

This year the Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada. The venues are:
· BC Place
· Canada Hockey Place
· Cypress Mountain
· Main Media Centre
· Olympic Village Vancouver
· Olympic Village Whistler
· Pacific Coliseum
· Richmond Olympic Oval
· Whistler Sliding Centre
· UBC Thunderbird Arena
· Vancouver Olympic Centre
· Whistler Creekside
· Whistler Media Centre
· Whistler Medals Plaza
· Whistler Olympic Park

When starting out in collecting Sports Memorabilia, it is good to start with your favourite sport. It would be wonderful to collect declared national treasure and FIFA ambassador, Pele. However, we

One area, is autographed sports memorabilia. The success of the individual will change the value of the item. As well, the ability to prove an item is "game worn" and can be related to a particular famous game will increase the value.

Retirement or death can add value to items for popular sportsmen. However, the need to prove authenticity or the devaluation that occurs when the autograph has a personal address such as the recipient's name, make this market fraught with difficulty. The difficulty in dealing with the large number of fraudulent signatures for sales has led to the need to have a certificate of authenticity and to buy from a reputable dealer.

Did sports memorabilia start when Babe Ruth started collecting memorabilia. Or did sports memorabilia collecting start even earlier. Surely, a celtic football in the dark ages that was one of the first sports memorabilia. Olympic memorabilia have long been collected since the early years of last century.

There is now a wide range of memorabilia for winter Olympics. These include the torches and torch replicas, jerseys, hats, T-shirts, jewellery, coins, pins, scarves and ties. And of course, every winter Olympics must have a mascot and these generate another area for collecting.

Vintage sports marketing which refers to older items have been appreciating significantly. The early Winter Olympics had few commercial collectibles, so any memorabilia are hence more valuable.

Find the value of an item is hard. Searching for valuations for sports memorabilia can be difficult. Until a item is exchanged at auction with interested buyers, the value of any item of sports memorabilia is in the owner's mind only.

But buying something for a sport you love is a good start.

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A Closer Look At The First Porsche - The Porsche 64

Most auto connoisseurs consider the Porsche 64 which is also sometimes known as the VW Aerocoupe, Type 64 and Type 64K10 as being the first automobile made by Porsche. It was manufactured mainly from parts from the Model 64 VW Beetle and that is where the model number comes from. The Porsche 64's flat-four engine produced fifty b.h.p. and gave the vehicle a top speed of 160 km/h.
The body was designed by Porsche Burro after wind tunnel tests made for the Type 114, a V10 racer that never saw the light of day as a production car. Dr. Porsche planned to enter the roadster in the 1939 Berlin to Rome event. The bodywork specialist company Reutter made three cars from shaped aluminum. Out of the three, one was totaled in the early years of World War II by a VW bureaucrat. The two cars that remained were used by the exclusively by the Porsche family. Towards the end of World War Two, they put one of the vehicles in storage and used the other one. American troops discovered the one put in storage in May 1945, cut the top of it off and took it joyriding for a few weeks until the engine went and it was junked. Farina restored the only remaining Porsche 64 in 1947, as it was owned and driven by Ferry Porsche. In 1949, the Austrian racer Otto Matte bought the car and raced it, winning the Alpine Rally in 1950 in it.
Now nearly a hundred years after its founder started designing automobiles, Porsche is still popular, the result of offering a cure for a mid-life crisis similar to owning a Harley - Davidson motorcycle. Porsche's lineup now features four model lines: the incredibly sexy and popular Boxster, the enduring 911 models, the relatively new Cayenne SUV, and the stunningly opulent Carrera GT, and if you can't afford their cars, Porsche also offers watches, luggage, and tennis rackets bearing its name.
The company is still controlled by descendants of the founding family and it has enlarged its area by offering consulting services to other industries not only on the automotive industry but in furniture, construction, and engineering as well.
Form its early years of operating in the red, Porsche has evolved into a winner as one of the most profitable car makers on the planet while many other automakers are having to lay off workers, offer cash incentives, and strategize how to deal with the upcoming Chinese market. Porsche consistently releases startling new products and has quadrupled annual vehicle sales in less than ten years in spite of costs and the risks involved.
The most recent additions of the Boxster and Cayenne are doing very well and continue to be examples of the popularity of Porsche as the company continues to move forward.

About the Author

Gregg Hall is an author and internet marketing consultant living in Navarre Florida. For more on
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