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How would you like your own medal podium?

By Chris ErskineColumnist 
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Looking for the ultimate 2010 Winter Games souvenir? How about a medal podium?

The Vancouver committee that organized these games has decided to auction off 10,000 items when the games are over, including pucks from the final hockey games, ski gates and winners podiums. The Province newspaper reported that 20 of the 23 medal podiums would be available. Companies are expected to be the top bidders for the platforms, which are considered too big for most homes.

Also available will be the torch that Wayne Gretzky used to light the cauldron. Details of the online auction are being worked out. Gameday Auction, a Vancouver company, has been hired to set it up.

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Is the Winter Games’ legacy being sold to the highest bidder? Organizers say that many keepsakes will be donated to area museums.

-- Chris Erskine in Vancouver

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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