Online auction site cashes in on Games

Items related to gold medal winners are appearing on the Internet for auction.

The autographs of four American swimmers, including that of Michael Phelps, winner of eight gold medals, are being sold as a set on Taobao.com. The asking price: 12,000 yuan ($1,750).

The owner, a photographer, who calls himself "People yuan", managed to get the autographs during Visa's Friendship Lanes Tour of China in April last year.