The Paper's reporter Zhu Zhe reported comprehensively
Every Winter Olympics brings people surging passion and endless memories, some beautiful, but also some lamentable, such as the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and its follow-up stories.
In 1978, Sarajevo beat numerous candidate cities such as Sapporo in Japan and Falun-Gothenburg in Sweden to win the right to host the 1984 Winter Olympics. It was a unique competition, because after the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, many Western countries, including the United States, boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, so the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was a "reunion" of competitive sports around the world.
At the opening ceremony of the 1984 Winter Olympics, a panoramic view of Sarajevo's Koševo Stadium.
Wiki image of the official poster for the 1984 Winter Olympics
In the 12 days of competition, 1272 players from 49 countries and regions competed fiercely, and Yugoslav athlete Jure Franko won a silver medal in the ski giant slalom, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals in the Yugoslav Winter Olympics, and the whole conference was a complete success, and a small local city briefly became a world sports center.
Jure Franko competed in the men's giant slalom skiing event at the Winter Olympics and won a silver medal for the IOC image
However, no one expected that 8 years later, a 4-year siege of Sarajevo would turn this beautiful city into a sniper's lair and battery.
On June 8, 1992, a tower caught fire in the center of Sarajevo
Houses in Sarajevo, burned down after being forced to fire directly after being hit by artillery in 1994.
The Bobsleigh Track of the Winter Olympics was turned into an artillery position, and the basement of the Holiday Inn, built for the Winter Olympics, became a hiding place for war correspondents. Trebevic, the city's most famous mountain, was ravaged by war, and according to a visit last year by The Daily Telegraph travel writer Chris Leadbeater, visitors can still see a trench when they take the reconstructed cable car to the ridge. The podium of the Winter Olympics that year was full of bullet holes, and the olympic rings were once missing two rings, and were used as execution sites during wartime.
Ioanna Sakellaraki, a ski resort in Sarajevo used during the 1984 Winter Olympics
Picture of Ioanna Sakellaraki, the site of the abandoned Olympic ski jumping competition
The podium of the Winter Olympics that year was full of bullet holes, and the olympic rings were once missing two rings, and were used as execution sites during the war.
Picture of Ioanna Sakellaraki on the podium restored in 2017
The Olympic Stadium statue was frozen in the 1980s and 1990s, above the hill where the stadium is located is a wartime cemetery, full of sadness, and below the Zetra area, which once served as a skating venue for the Winter Olympics, survived but had to be rebuilt, thanks to the financial assistance provided by Barcelona, the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics, when it plunged into the abyss in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo's famous hotels in the Igeman Snow Mountain Zone are also hard to hide, and walking into the hall gives an unsettling experience, and the pictures left by graffiti artists on the walls seem to be the only "vivid" signs. Libitt said: "The glass creaks under his feet. It feels like walking on a bone."
The glass of the abandoned building creaks under your feet, feeling like walking on a bone in a Muhamed Osmanagic figure
The Guardian reported in 2018 that "after the war, the wreckage of destroyed restaurants, hotels, sports facilities and mountain huts was left to decay, and thousands of mines were cleared at an extremely slow pace".
However, after years of wind and frost, this ski resort is also being reborn. Apartments built for athletes in the Olympic Village have been converted into residences, and Holiday Inn was acquired by the European Grand Hotel Group during the pandemic and will be renovated in the coming years.
The Holiday Hotel, formerly holiday hotel, was revitalized after the war and will be renovated with peter forsber figures
Sarajevo's top ski area, the Jahorina Mountains, was also the women's alpine skiing venue for the 1984 Winter Olympics, and is now equipped with a new cable car, allowing skiers to enjoy a drink and dance in the bar.
Women's alpine skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics IOC Image
January 2020 Jahorina Mountains
The Bjelasnica Mountains, another main venue of the year, was one of the mountains of the men's alpine skiing competition, and its challenging forest trails are also ideal for skilled skiers and enthusiasts.
The steep Bjelasnica Olympic ski run once again attracts tourists to the Muhamed Osmanagic figure
The future of snow and ice in Sarajevo can still be expected. Dr Izet Rado, vice-president of the IOC of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has said Barcelona may cooperate with Sarajevo in a joint bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. "It's a realistic project," he said, "and no one had heard of Sarajevo before 1984. But we won the right to be the host. If it were to be achieved again, it would be significant. ”
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