Halsinki Badge-Swappers - Badge-Swapping at the Olympic pool. Left to right: 15-year-old Pauline Musgrove, of York, youngest member of the British team, Jean Wrigley, of Oldham, Vadim Bubok, of the Russian polo team, Jean Botham, of Manchester, and other Russian polo players looking on.Latest craze among competitors at the Olympic games in Helsinki is Badge-swapping. Enthusiastic devotees of the Fad are the Russian Athletes, who now have many foreign Badges in their collections. July 23, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper).