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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1445376, member: 4381&quot;]<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/olympic-medals-jubilee-coins-and-2p-bits--its-a-licence-to-make-money-7768613.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/olympic-medals-jubilee-coins-and-2p-bits--its-a-licence-to-make-money-7768613.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/olympic-medals-jubilee-coins-and-2p-bits--its-a-licence-to-make-money-7768613.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Most people would be happy to get their hands on one Olympic medal this summer: Marie Buckley has already picked up 4,700. Indeed, she is the only person in the world who will get her hands on every London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sitting quietly at a sewing machine, stitching a purple ribbon on to a Paralympic silver gong, she is shy and unassuming. &quot;It&#039;s lovely,&quot; says the 56-year-old, from Tonyrefail, South Wales, of her job engraving the Olympic medals, the largest and heaviest ever made. &quot;I have always liked the Olympics but I will be thinking I had a big part in them.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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