Inside the Strange And Expensive World of Olympic Torch Collecting

There are allegedly only two collectors in the entire world who own complete Olympic torch collections. Lucky Burke isn’t one of them — yet. But he plans to be.

Burke, the 66-year-old CEO of a flooring distribution company in Houston, owns 32 torches and says he needs five more to own one from every single Olympics. The rarest torch he owns cost him $70,000 and is from the 1992 Albertville Winter Games.