Momentos in time

Good news for Olympic memorabilia fans: More than 100 mementos from the Lausanne Olympic Museum are now on display in the Swiss Hotel in Beijing.

Highlights include: a table tennis racket and ball signed by Deng Yaping for Juan Antonio Samaranch, former president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC); a pair of shoes (pictured) worn by Italian decathlon athlete Paolo Casarsa in Athens in 2004; ice skates worn by Richard Tottem Button, the gold medalist in figure skating in Moritz, Switzerland in 1948.

Devoted to the heritage of the Games, the exhibition includes a panoply of surprising objects that the museum has saved for decades.