Collecting Olympic moments

It isn’t a museum, it is a Langley man’s apartment. Ashley Burr checks out a sports collection decades in the making.

LANGLEY (CityNews) – A Langley apartment is a wall-to-wall tribute to sports, but there’s one part of it that holds a special place in the owner’s heart, and it goes back to the Olympic Games held in Vancouver a decade ago.

“I just got the most famous things that have ever happened in sports, and some of them are autographed but if they are not autographed they have to be something famous and that’s what is on the walls,” Dan Armstrong told NEWS 1130.

The collection all started when a friend met one of Armstrong’s favourite hockey players and got a photo signed for him. Twenty-five years later and he has built a museum in his own home, with thousands of tokens from iconic sports moments throughout the years.

“When I went through the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, there was nothing like some of these pictures. Like, the first time Canada won the first Olympics in hockey was 1920, and I’ve got that team picture and all the information in there and frame and everything, and nobody else I’ve ever met has stuff like that. Canada’s won nine gold medals, the most, and I’ve got a picture of all nine winners.”

Of course, one being from arguably the most iconic moments of the 2010 games: Crosby’s game winning golden goal, signed by the man himself.

Meanwhile, Ken Richardson, owner of Pastime Sports and Games, has collected his fair share of Olympic memorabilia from the 2010 Games, too.

“This is one of the most prized possessions this is Roberto Luongo’s autograph signed jersey one of my favourite,” he said as he held up the jersey.

Despite being a decade old, his advice to anyone with 2010 memorabilia is to hold off on trying to make money on collectibles just yet.

“I don’t see a huge increase in the memorabilia in the very short term, I think it’s the type of things that is Canadiana, that over a longer period of time you’ll see a gradual increase in the prices,” he said.

While he wasn’t able to get a ticket to any of the 2010 events, Armstrong said it didn’t bother him. His collection and his experiences in the city, he said, makes him feel like he was still part of sports history.

“Just walking around a day or two before the Olympics was exciting, it was such a buzz out there,” Armstrong said. “It was very exciting.”

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