Bill and Dave Christian put Olympic medals up for auction

This handout provided by Heritage Auctions shows the 1980 Olympic gold medal presented to U.S. hockey player Dave Christian. (Brian Fewell/Heritage Auctions via AP)Their Olympic gold medals and other memorabilia have been spending more time in safety deposit boxes than on display, so Bill Christian and Dave Christian decided the time was right to auction them off.

The father-son collection, currently up for online bidding, will be sold later this month.

As treasured as the items are, parting with them wasn’t as difficult as people might have assumed.

“Whether or not we have it in our hand, we still both won gold medals,” said Dave Christian, a key member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that…